Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:37:39 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> To: "Eichert, Diana" <deicher@sandia.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: install on Dell Precision WorkStation 730 Message-ID: <20030208203739.GA573@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov> References: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov>
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:29:52AM -0700, Eichert, Diana wrote: > 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? Yes, they are. You probably need to give a pathname. Try prefixing a slash (load /kernel.gz). Probably the easiest way to install FreeBSD is to copy the files from the EFI partition on the CD to the EFI partition on disk. The loader has fs0: hardcoded for now, which messes things up when you already have an EFI partition. BTW: A quick search on the Dell site does not give me anything about the 730. Did they gave it an early retirement? HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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