Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:23:30 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Oliver Fuckner <oliver.fuckner@rebootking.de> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on HP i2000 BigSur Message-ID: <20031025182330.GB593@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <3F9A9475.30808@rebootking.de> References: <3F9A9475.30808@rebootking.de>
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:19:17PM +0200, Oliver Fuckner wrote: > > Can anybody tell me how to create a GPT partition layout and an efi > partition using sysinstall ? sysinstall does not yet create GPT partitions. Partitions will be MBR partitions. To create an EFI partition, create a partition of type 0xEF. > Also unpacking the efipart.sys partition from CD did not seem to work. efipart.sys is an image. You can mount it. > I installed FreeBSD-CURRENT (iso image created on a i386/5-RELEASE-p10 > machine) yesterday by first installing Debian Linux. After installation > I removed the linux partitions, kept the efi partition and the GPT > layout and installed FreeBSD. > Do you have to put a "bootable" flag on the efi- or the BSD-Partition ? No. GPT does not have a "bootable" flag and EFI ignores the bootable flag for MBR partitions, if it accepts the MBR partition in the first place (which the BigSur does). > Installing a new kernel (with SMP-support) also did not work, because > the kernel in the efi-partition still was the old single-CPU-version. Our kernel and modules are installed in the EFI partition. Since you didn't create partitions with sysinstall (they were inherited), you're missing the efi mount point and the link /boot -> /efi/boot. As such you're not installing new kernels in the EFI partition. Oh: do not enable SMP. Note that most of the above is due to bugs or incompleteness. It will eventually be resolved. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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