Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:39:18 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> To: Gian-Paolo Musumeci <gdm@pdti.net> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 5.2.1 onto HP rx2600 Message-ID: <406397D6.7010107@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <200403260219.i2Q2J6w8026874@wraith.pdti.net> References: <200403260219.i2Q2J6w8026874@wraith.pdti.net>
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Gian-Paolo Musumeci wrote: >>No, but you might want to give the post 5.2.1 snaphot a try: >> ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ia64 >>It should find your CD drive. >> >> > >The post-5.2.1 snapshot does indeed see the CD drive and let me install, >apparently without further incident. However, the system won't boot >afterwards; the device isn't listed in the EFI bootable devices table. > >Is further magic required? The documentation, alas, is somewhat sketchy >on this topic. > > Welcome to the wonderful world of EFI. You have to tell it a device can boot and where the boot file is: EFI can't figure that out by itself. You need to Add a Boot Option and find the boot/loader.efi file to select. If you get to the EFI shell prompt try "ls -r fs1:", "ls -r fs2:" etc until you run out of fsN: to try. In my case I did something wrong and the relevant files were never copied to the EFI partition at all, and I copied them manually in a holographic shell with the CD.
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