Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 04:29:52 -0700 From: "Eichert, Diana" <deicher@sandia.gov> To: "'freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: install on Dell Precision WorkStation 730 Message-ID: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov>
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I just inherited a Dell Precision WorkStation 730 at work, right before it goes to the junk pile. So I thought I'd try to get FreeBSD 5.0 running on it. First, I did all this from keyboard/vga monitor connected to the system. When I boot with the mini-inst CD in the drive it fails looking for a kernel. ls'ng the CD shows a kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz. more'ng the loader.rc under fs2a:/boot I see the list of commands the loader would walk through, except the files it references are not gzipped's files. Steps I follow (I'm typing this from memory): set currdev=fs2a: load kernel.gz load fails, are gzipp'd kernels supported? OK, so I try it with the Disk2 CD instead. more'ng the loader.rc files give me the following steps + setting currdev to fs2a: Steps I follow: set currdev=fs2a: include boot/loader.4th start This loads the kernel to the point where it wants to mount a root device or I can enter a ? to get a list of devices. At this point any keyboard activity is ignored. I'm thinking I should plug in a serial cable and try from there. However I was just reading from a previous thread that there is some vga support available. Are there steps I'm missing here? I recognise that the IA-64 platform is not a "tier 1" platform, but I wanted to get one up and running so I could track current. thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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