Install FreeBSD/ia64 on HP zx6000?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:36AM -0600, James R. Van Artsalen wrote:
> Is there a step-by-step instruction list on getting FreeBSD/ia64 
> installed on an HP zx6000?

Not that I know of.

> I burned a 5.2.1 miniinst ISO date 2/25 and managed to coax EFI into 
> booting it.  The CDROM drive is not detected by the kernel, FTP over 
> proxy gets a SIGSEGV, so I used NFS.

The CDROM drive is not detected because 5.2.1 doesn't have the ACPI
update that happened in December. The update fixed bus enumeration
that was broken for a while (since 5.1 I think). The snapshot here:
ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ia64/
does probe the ATA controller.

> Most install attempts failed with "device full" errors.

Can you give a description of what you did?

> Now what?  EFI seems generally clueless about booting so I assume I have 
> to manually boot the kernel.  What do I do to get EFI to load FreeBSD?

Add /boot/loader.efi to the boot menu.

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