From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 00:15:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3476816A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC46F43D2F for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2P8FXi3002917; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2P8FXxJ087409; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2P8FXoi087408; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "James R. Van Artsalen" Message-ID: <20040325081533.GA87339@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <40628E5C.40200@jrv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40628E5C.40200@jrv.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD/ia64 on HP zx6000? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:15:34 -0000 On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:36AM -0600, James R. Van Artsalen wrote: > Is there a step-by-step instruction list on getting FreeBSD/ia64 > installed on an HP zx6000? Not that I know of. > I burned a 5.2.1 miniinst ISO date 2/25 and managed to coax EFI into > booting it. The CDROM drive is not detected by the kernel, FTP over > proxy gets a SIGSEGV, so I used NFS. The CDROM drive is not detected because 5.2.1 doesn't have the ACPI update that happened in December. The update fixed bus enumeration that was broken for a while (since 5.1 I think). The snapshot here: ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ia64/ does probe the ATA controller. > Most install attempts failed with "device full" errors. Can you give a description of what you did? > Now what? EFI seems generally clueless about booting so I assume I have > to manually boot the kernel. What do I do to get EFI to load FreeBSD? Add /boot/loader.efi to the boot menu. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net