Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:05:36 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing from CD Message-ID: <AD07A869-3E2F-4BD2-8CB1-29111CCCE6DC@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20090623125000.GA1191@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090619132201.GA83507@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <4DE8B19B-C54F-41B5-84CA-CF3118A667B5@mac.com> <20090622151545.GA7200@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <4DE4CA67-4149-436E-9884-8E444F6BB0F4@mac.com> <20090623125000.GA1191@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:50 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36:01PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> >> On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> >>> >>> It feels as if the installation program leaves the system >>> in some unclean state. I actually have to disconnect the power >>> cord to get to the EFI console. >> >> Hmmm, I never encountered this. A firmware upgrade (the MP's in >> this case) may be what's called for. > > I reflushed the firmware, and checked the system with HP offline > diagnostics CD - no problems found, all seems fine. > > I also switched to using LAN on MP, instead of the serial console, and > now reboot goes fine. However, loader.efi is still zero size. > > I'm probably wrong, but does the FBSD installation > program on i386 and on alpha ask about creating MBR? > Is it relevant at all? Itanium only has a GPT, so the traditional BSD disklabel within a MBR slice is not used. As such, sysinstall won't ask about slicing. The behaviour is correct. I have no idea why the sizes are 0. My only guess is that you may have a corrupted EFI partition. Try checking the file system... If all else fails, you should be able to manually copy the contents of /boot on the live CD to the EFI file system. FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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