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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Samuel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Moro <faust64@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64
Message-ID:  <20100726141944.GA35718@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:07:27PM +0200, Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded
> FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso.
> 
> When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the
> blinkingunderscore,
> nothing else happend.
> When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a message saying that
> /boot/loader was not found.
> 
> Having a look into /boot, I noticed that indeed, there's no loader anymore.
> But there a loader.efi, which wasn't in FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE (the last I
> tried).
> I tried copying loader.efi to loader, but as expected, it says me 'invalid
> format' and still does not want to boot...
> 
> What happened to loader?
> Did I download the wrong iso?

probably..

Perhaps you meant amd64?

What's your computer make/model?

> Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not?

ia64 wouldn't boot via USB.


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