Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:22:52 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on zx6000 Message-ID: <20120718112251.GA72626@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <12399EEC-E7D2-415C-96EE-102DDA5A4866@xcllnt.net> References: <4FE38863.9020303@wizardlike.ca> <1817B805-693A-4635-9506-EBD8F90C1166@xcllnt.net> <20120702124138.GB36368@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <14CF4E3A-17A4-466D-A1BB-A080616B35DD@xcllnt.net> <20120703112755.GA39761@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <C3DE4358-C96C-41CF-94DB-D6880A2F9954@xcllnt.net> <20120715162848.GA23384@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <12399EEC-E7D2-415C-96EE-102DDA5A4866@xcllnt.net>
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:52:43AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > Marcel, > > > > I went for an easy option, and installed from 8.1-RELEASE DVD. > > > > Now, can I hope to update to -current in one jump? > > You should be able to, but make sure you have the latest loader > in the EFI system partition. The 8.1 loader will not be able to > boot a -current kernel. > > As a precaution, you could create a new partition for the FreeBSD > -current installation so that you preserve the FreeBSD 8.1 one. > You can even leave the FreeBSD 8.1 loader on the system partition, > though the latest loader should boot an old FreeBSD kernel just > fine. Great, got it. So, if anybody else is interested I did: 1. install FreeBSD from 8.1-release cd. I choose minimal distribution. Important: on my rx2600 the console is on uart1 (uart1: console (9600,n,8,1)). However, in the default installation ttyu1 is marked "off" in /etc/ttys. So quite a few times I ended up with an installation where I was locked out from the console and couldn't log in. There are 2 solutions to this problem. Either - in the post-installation dialog choose to edit /etc/ttys and make sure to enable (mark "on") ttyu1 (or, depending on your hardware, maybe ttyu2, ttyu3, or all of them. On reboot you then should get a login prompt on the console. or - set up at least one network interface *and* add at least one user to the system. On reboot this will allow this user to login remotely via ssh. (root ssh login is disabled by default, of course). 2. Copied the 3.0 loader from another ia64 -current box. 3. follow Marcel's /boot symlink procedure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2561+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-ia64/20100131.freebsd-ia64 4. install the ports tree using csup and this ports-supfile: *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all (Choose the host closest to you). 5. Install devel/subversion from ports 6. Install the FreeBSD src tree: mkdir /usr/src /usr/local/bin/svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src 7. Updated the system to the latest current: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r238540 -- 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
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