From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sat Feb 8 3:30: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C5137B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 03:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from MM01SNLNTO.sandia.gov (mm01snlnto.sandia.gov [132.175.109.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEA743F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 03:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deicher@sandia.gov) Received: from 132.175.109.4 by MM01SNLNTO.sandia.gov with ESMTP ( Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay 01 (MMS v5.5.0)); Sat, 08 Feb 2003 04:29:54 -0600 Received: from ES01SNLNT.sandia.gov (es01snlnt.sandia.gov [134.253.130.4]) by mailgate2.sandia.gov (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h18BTrTW005967 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 04:29:53 -0700 (MST) Received: by es01snlnt.sandia.gov with Internet Mail Service ( 5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 04:29:53 -0700 Message-ID: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov> From: "Eichert, Diana" To: "'freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org'" Subject: install on Dell Precision WorkStation 730 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 04:29:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 125A35B8665430-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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