From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 11:23:33 2003 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 7478A16A4B3 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327E943FA3 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9PINVbe074920; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h9PINVP9000683; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id h9PINV4S000682; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:30 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Oliver Fuckner Message-ID: <20031025182330.GB593@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <3F9A9475.30808@rebootking.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F9A9475.30808@rebootking.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on HP i2000 BigSur 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: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:23:33 -0000 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:19:17PM +0200, Oliver Fuckner wrote: > > Can anybody tell me how to create a GPT partition layout and an efi > partition using sysinstall ? sysinstall does not yet create GPT partitions. Partitions will be MBR partitions. To create an EFI partition, create a partition of type 0xEF. > Also unpacking the efipart.sys partition from CD did not seem to work. efipart.sys is an image. You can mount it. > I installed FreeBSD-CURRENT (iso image created on a i386/5-RELEASE-p10 > machine) yesterday by first installing Debian Linux. After installation > I removed the linux partitions, kept the efi partition and the GPT > layout and installed FreeBSD. > Do you have to put a "bootable" flag on the efi- or the BSD-Partition ? No. GPT does not have a "bootable" flag and EFI ignores the bootable flag for MBR partitions, if it accepts the MBR partition in the first place (which the BigSur does). > Installing a new kernel (with SMP-support) also did not work, because > the kernel in the efi-partition still was the old single-CPU-version. Our kernel and modules are installed in the EFI partition. Since you didn't create partitions with sysinstall (they were inherited), you're missing the efi mount point and the link /boot -> /efi/boot. As such you're not installing new kernels in the EFI partition. Oh: do not enable SMP. Note that most of the above is due to bugs or incompleteness. It will eventually be resolved. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net