Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:32:32 -0600 From: Kai Lockwood <kailockwood@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot] Message-ID: <4A3EFB50.8090801@gmail.com>
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:11 -0600 From: Kai Lockwood <kailockwood@gmail.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> References: <20090619130714.GA83427@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <b5ef8d5c0906190734x716dc90eh98ce945fd7b088de@mail.gmail.com> <20090619161757.GA83945@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:34:49AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote: > >> I encounter the same error message. It means that for what ever reason >> the kernel cannot negotiate DMA transfers with the CD drive. You can >> either ignore it or stop the boot loader and run the command: set >> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 >> > > thank you, I was able to install the minimal configuration. > However, on reboot, I can't see where my FBSD is.. So I can't boot it. > > I can see this: > > fs0:\boot> ls > Directory of: fs0:\boot > > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 . > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 0 .. > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 defaults > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 firmware > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 kernel > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 modules > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 8,192 zfs > 06/19/09 04:09p <DIR> 57,344 GENERIC > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 loader.efi > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 support.4th > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 loader.rc > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 loader.4th > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 skiload > 06/12/09 06:56p r 0 device.hints > 06/12/09 06:55p r 0 loader.help > 7 File(s) 0 bytes > 8 Dir(s) > > > fs0:\boot> > > > > fs0: is a disk > > Not sure what to do next. And why is loader.efi zero size? > > The most important question I have at this point is why are all the files a zero size. I'm going to try copying the efi directory on the boot CD to the one on the hard drive and see what happens.
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