From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 2 16:08:30 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 9931916A4CE; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349B343D5E; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:08:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.250]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i72G8UIV089482; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i72G8TWZ002522; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i72G8THS002521; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:08:29 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Josef El-Rayes Message-ID: <20040802160829.GB2366@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20040802134019.GA27996@daemon.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040802134019.GA27996@daemon.li> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot installed freebsd 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: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:08:30 -0000 On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:40:19PM +0000, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > hi! > > i just successfully installed the latest freebsd-ia64 > snapshot and i was wondering how i add it into the > efi boot manager. i read about giving the EFI partition > a mount point (in the mailinglist archive) but which > mount point? i gave it /boot (the additional partitions > and mountpoints where set up with 'A' (auto settings)) > but then sysinstall complained about '/mnt/boot too many symlinks'. > i also looked for the boot/loader.efi file, as i saw > in the archive but i was not able to find one. Typically we put the contents of /boot on the EFI partition. That way the loader, kernel and configuration files are accessable under EFI. For this to work, we made /boot a symlink to where we actually want it. So, if you make the EFI partition mounted under /efi, then the installer will create a symlink /boot -> /efi/boot. However, there's currently a problem with the installer. It doesn't actually mount the EFI partition before installing, so all the /boot contents end up on the UFS root partition and not where we want it: the EFI partition. For now, use the CD to boot into FreeBSD and correct it by hand. This should explain why using /boot as the EFI mount point gives the error you're getting. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net