From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 14:33:17 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 90D38106564A for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F19A8FC17 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdOjx-0001F7-9O for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:33:13 +0200 Received: from pool-173-73-7-236.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.73.7.236]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:33:13 +0200 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-73-7-236.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:33:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:37:55 -0400 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-73-7-236.washdc.fios.verizon.net 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 14:33:17 -0000 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... Perfectly normal and to be expected. IA64 utilizes a different boot loader paradigm known as EFI. More info on EFI can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface > What happened to loader? > Did I download the wrong iso? Probably. The IA64 architecture is a completely different beast than x86. If your processor is a Xeon or some other regular Intel desktop type you need to use the amd64 iso image. > Did I miss something? > > Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not? > Maybe IA64 will not boot from USB because of the EFI boot loader requirement. -Mike