Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Zach Wilkinson <ztwilkinson@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD ia64 <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rx2600 need firmware update? Message-ID: <86597.47912.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100730150716.GF898@x2045.x.rootbsd.net>
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Brett, I powered on the system and inserted the CD disc. At the EFI boot menu I selected CDROM. The FreeBSD/ia64 loader displayed. After it loaded the kernel into memory it briefly offered me the opportunity to select a non-default boot config. I let this pass. The display then transferred from the VGA console to the serial console where standard kernel messages appeared as part of a standard bootup. Immediately after that sysinstall automatically displayed on the serial console and I select the Standard Install option. As I previously had Ubuntu installed on this system, I re-partitioned the disk as follows. 0: /efi (default size) 1: swap (16gb, 2xRAM) 2: / (3gb) 3: /var (3gb) 4: /usr (~47gb) I pulled an IP address from DHCP and I enabled IPv6. I selected the Developer install set. I created one non-root account. I enable SSH but no other services. I installed no packages but did install the ports collection. At the end I selected to exit sysinstall which initiated a reboot. That's a rough account of how it went. --- On Fri, 7/30/10, B. Estrade <estrabd@cs.uh.edu> wrote: > From: B. Estrade <estrabd@cs.uh.edu> > Subject: Re: rx2600 need firmware update? > To: "FreeBSD ia64" <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> > Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:07 AM > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07:02AM > -0700, Zach Wilkinson wrote: > > I just installed 8.1 onto a HP rx2600. It booted off > the netinst CD and the install appears to have gone through > fine. > > > > However, when the system rebooted at the end of the > install, the EFI menu had not been updated with a FreeBSD > boot option. I have never installed FreeBSD onto an ia64 > system before, but the other OS I have installed have done > that, so I just presume FreeBSD does it as well. > > > > I'm not the original owner of this system, so it's > very likely that firmware has never been updated. I'm > wondering if the firmware currently installed is defective > or somehow incompatible with the FreeBSD/ia64 installer such > that the boot menu is not getting updated. > > > > Also, what's the general recommendation regarding > firmware on the rx2600, and are any additional steps > required to update the EFI boot menu. > > > > Thanks, > > Zach, > > I offer no help, but you might be able to help me. I gather > that the > rx2600 is very similar to the zx6000 on which I am having > a > spontaneous reboot problem during sysinstall. > > I was wondering if you could provide a basic recount of the > steps you > too to install FreeBSD. > > Thanks! > Brett > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org > mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >home | help
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