From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 05:44:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088D816A41F; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:44:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C2343D49; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:44:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE644C7E9; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:45:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF38F4C79E; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <43718CD4.9010909@roq.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:44:52 +1100 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <43704138.2060007@roq.com> <200511081026.26576.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200511081026.26576.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Jan Isley , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 6-release cd install, no serial console joy X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:44:57 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: >On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:10 am, Michael VInce wrote: > > >>I am having similar problems on a Dell 2850 using 6.0R AMD64, but I >>believe its not something to do with my hardware although I don't have >>any other AMD64/EMT64 server to test on. >> >>I don't think I have actually done a ISO install via serial console on >>6.0-Release but I think I did on beta versions and it did work. >>I have been trying to do a PXE install and watching it all via serial >>console and it works fine as long as I dont use 6.0-Release files. Using >>a 6.0beta with PXE is working it fully boots the kernel and brings up >>sysinstall my only problem now is that when it tries to do a FTP install >>it goes for a 6.0beta5 directory which doesn't exist. When I try to use >>a 6.0-Release I can get it to boot loader and then get it to load the >>kernel but after that it disappears don't get any boot messages at all. >> >>Mike >> >> > >Have you checked to see if there are any device hints at the loader prompt? >It may be that /boot/device.hints is missing on the CD for some reason, and >the serial console requires at least one hint to set the flags on sio0 to >work properly. > > I checked on both of my PXE setups (which sit in side by side directories) and device.hints files on the 6.0-BETA5 and 6.0-RELEASE are identical In fact most of the /boot/ directory files in the Beta5 and Release are identical except for mfsroot.gz , loader.rc. The "beastie.4th" is in a extra file in Release I have now successfully used the Beta5 as a PXE boot installer and changed the Release name in sysinstall as Boris suggested to install the final release files. Mike