Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:19:57 +0000 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gotchas when trying 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <200211231719.57610.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20021121220031.GB1191@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:00 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Gang, > > I tried the DP2 install myself and with some corrective actions and > retries one can actually finish an install and end up with a usable > system. A quick rundown follows: > > 1. a CD boot (using miniinst.iso) doesn't give me any troubles on my > Itanium box. The mechanics work, so the problem here is the same > as on any other architecture: does the kernel boot at all? > > 2. When partitioning the disk, you have to create an EFI slice (type > 239). I used 110M as the size for it and that was enough to hold > 2 kernels of which one was a debug kernel. Note that the installer > still creates MBR partitions (=slices). Remember the EFI device > name (eg da0s1) at this point. You need it later. > > 3. When you create BSD partitions and define mount points, make sure > you give the EFI partition a mount point and also mark it as > newfs. In the description below I assume the mount point of the EFI > partition is called efi. > > 4. The actual install (after selecting ditribution, media and if you > want ports collection) starts off with an error. The error > dissapears too quickly, but it must be because the EFI partition > couldn't be mounted. This is nasty but not critical. The install > continues and finished successfully. We just have to patch things up. > You first finish the install in the normal way. Just fix things up > before you reboot (ie exit the installer). > > 5. After the install, go to vty4 (holographic shell) and fix the > link /boot->/mnt/efi/boot to be /boot->efi/boot (ie relative!). > Secondly, manually mount the EFI partition. This fixes the > currently known bugs in the installer and which ultimately causes > you to end up without a kernel to boot from (ouch). > > 6. Reinstall the base distribution. This will cause kernels to be > installed under /boot. Since we linked that to efi/boot, we end > up with kernels and modules on the EFI partition. That's where > we need them. > > 7. Reboot and create an EFI menu entry and you should be all set to > go. > > FYI, I just managed to install this on my Itanium1 machine. It was a bit tricky because I already had an existing EFI partition. This was mounted by EFI as fs0 and confused the CD's loader considerably. I eventually worked around this by copying the CD's efi bits over to the existing EFI partition. This is looking pretty cool so far :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the messagehelp
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