From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon Jan 27 2: 0:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CF337B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B78043F18 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RA0QMW057476; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RA0QXC003047; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0RA0Qdj003046; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:00:26 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Emeric Maschino Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie 5.0-RELEASE install questions Message-ID: <20030127100026.GA2990@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <1043660005.11014.52.camel@giulietta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1043660005.11014.52.camel@giulietta> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:33:25AM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote: > > - where are the packages located? I get a missing packages/INDEX error > if I choose a distribution set other than Minimal. Is it normal? Package builds were only just started at the time of 5.0. It is expected that they are present in 5.1. > - how can I tell the loader it is ran from the second hard disk? It > wrongly assumes that it is ran from fs0: and then can't find the kernel > if I don't install it on da0s1a. I've tried to write a custom > /boot/loader.conf with no success (which variables must be set, using > the fs: or disksa or dasa formalism?) This is a limitation in the loader. It expects that there's only 1 EFI file system or otherwise that the loader is on the first EFI file system. If you type "show" at the bootloader prompt you'll see CURRDEV and BOOTDEV. Try setting CURRDEV, although I doubt it will work. Set it like this: set CURRDEV=fs1: > - at boot time, I must explicitly enter ufs:da1s2a to start FreeBSD. Why > can't it starts by itself? Because the kernel is not told about it. Set rootdev in loader.conf. (see /boot/defaults/loader.conf). HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message