From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 22 03:32:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCAC1065676 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kailockwood@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f203.google.com (mail-px0-f203.google.com [209.85.216.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DEF8FC0C for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kailockwood@gmail.com) Received: by pxi41 with SMTP id 41so2300600pxi.3 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:32:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=F+yDxpahY+EZ3b2yKj/2XK7LN2jjvu7p8LUd2LZvTiU=; b=ILtK8tyDnn3pc++JlhglPz370EyaGpy4sONbIdPvJ2Qk/nnstugYIWmNN5VeXmTXOe Hazu2D4AZwmZYrx/+3mZfvMoWrHWX2dZAbT2VIz0cYUaYUTrNQEfoYw0JQp2zthBvPub Z95nvLM7noP/ELMIn8BRaBhL4RRxSSL0mfq4E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eMQzi/nt0HrG7uYBSVOGQoG6ageeuEq0DAotMjQI0sYRFfgNNpgBMRjPwX7FTeSieA edcOCnHuGoUzLgDuul+XGrd6afam5QNWPwGeYJ6emyzfg8TeYkYg+VwVNOHiT6zey64I PpTBW2cSNVSjMHc89UKaZIomJWdBLzQcbhmyA= Received: by 10.143.8.17 with SMTP id l17mr2424268wfi.173.1245641563673; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.78? ([66.109.149.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm3273wfc.37.2009.06.21.20.32.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A3EFB50.8090801@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:32:32 -0600 From: Kai Lockwood User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Fwd: Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:32:44 -0000 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:11 -0600 From: Kai Lockwood To: Anton Shterenlikht References: <20090619130714.GA83427@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <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 8,192 . > 06/19/09 04:09p 0 .. > 06/19/09 04:09p 8,192 defaults > 06/19/09 04:09p 8,192 firmware > 06/19/09 04:09p 8,192 kernel > 06/19/09 04:09p 8,192 modules > 06/19/09 04:09p 8,192 zfs > 06/19/09 04:09p 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.