installation on hp rx2600

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:50:39PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> >> Would a workaround be to install either 5.0 or 5.1
> and
> >> then cvsup to 5.2?
> > You can try it, but I would not try versions older
> > than 5.1. Note however that nothing in that area has
> > been changed deliberately.
> 
> I grabbed the 5.1 ISO and was able to use the
> ATA-CD-drive during installation. Partitioning
> (slicing) and creating mount-points went fine, but I'm
> unable to boot.

Ah... I think this is related to having an MBR partitioning and not
a GPT partitioning. The GPT partition support is only present in
5.2 (probably also the latest snapshot).


> Reading the thread tells me that I need an
> EFI-partition as type DOS. Do I have to format it
> before I attempt the FreeBSD-install, and how would I
> do that?

The installer formats the EFI partition.

> I must be missing something important, either before
> or during the installation, but I seem to go in
> circles.

We currently have a combination of problems that result in this. There's
not much I can do about it now, but I expect that it's better after 5.2.


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