From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 14:19:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7E5106566C for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE5D8FC1B for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdOWv-0001ZA-8G; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:45 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OdOWv-0002k0-3u; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:45 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6QEJims036976; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o6QEJit1036975; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:44 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Samuel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Moro Message-ID: <20100726141944.GA35718@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:19:47 -0000 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. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423