Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:42:21 +0000 From: "B. Estrade" <estrabd@cs.uh.edu> To: Zach Wilkinson <ztwilkinson@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD ia64 <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rx2600 need firmware update? Message-ID: <20100730154221.GL898@x2045.x.rootbsd.net> In-Reply-To: <86597.47912.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20100730150716.GF898@x2045.x.rootbsd.net> <86597.47912.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:38:49AM -0700, Zach Wilkinson wrote: > Brett, > > I powered on the system and inserted the CD disc. > > At the EFI boot menu I selected CDROM. The FreeBSD/ia64 loader displayed. After it loaded the kernel into memory it briefly offered me the opportunity to select a non-default boot config. I let this pass. Thank you; I think that I didn't get this option. > > The display then transferred from the VGA console to the serial console where standard kernel messages appeared as part of a standard bootup. Immediately after that sysinstall automatically displayed on the serial console and I select the Standard Install option. > > As I previously had Ubuntu installed on this system, I re-partitioned the disk as follows. > 0: /efi (default size) > 1: swap (16gb, 2xRAM) > 2: / (3gb) > 3: /var (3gb) > 4: /usr (~47gb) > > I pulled an IP address from DHCP and I enabled IPv6. > > I selected the Developer install set. I am assuming you committed the installation at this point and it did its thing... > > I created one non-root account. > > I enable SSH but no other services. > > I installed no packages but did install the ports collection. > > At the end I selected to exit sysinstall which initiated a reboot. > > That's a rough account of how it went. Thank you - I am going to attempt a netinstall. I do not think that the fact that my media was cd/dvd had anything to do with the reboot, but you never know. I also need to figure out if the machine stores an MCA error record and how to recover it on the subsequent boot. Cheers, Brett > > --- On Fri, 7/30/10, B. Estrade <estrabd@cs.uh.edu> wrote: > > > From: B. Estrade <estrabd@cs.uh.edu> > > Subject: Re: rx2600 need firmware update? > > To: "FreeBSD ia64" <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> > > Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:07 AM > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07:02AM > > -0700, Zach Wilkinson wrote: > > > I just installed 8.1 onto a HP rx2600. It booted off > > the netinst CD and the install appears to have gone through > > fine. > > > > > > However, when the system rebooted at the end of the > > install, the EFI menu had not been updated with a FreeBSD > > boot option. I have never installed FreeBSD onto an ia64 > > system before, but the other OS I have installed have done > > that, so I just presume FreeBSD does it as well. > > > > > > I'm not the original owner of this system, so it's > > very likely that firmware has never been updated. I'm > > wondering if the firmware currently installed is defective > > or somehow incompatible with the FreeBSD/ia64 installer such > > that the boot menu is not getting updated. > > > > > > Also, what's the general recommendation regarding > > firmware on the rx2600, and are any additional steps > > required to update the EFI boot menu. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Zach, > > > > I offer no help, but you might be able to help me. I gather > > that the > > rx2600 is very similar to the zx6000 on which I am having > > a > > spontaneous reboot problem during sysinstall. > > > > I was wondering if you could provide a basic recount of the > > steps you > > too to install FreeBSD. > > > > Thanks! > > Brett > > > > > > > > > > >? ? ??? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org > > mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > -- > > B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org > > mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com>help
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