Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:33:55 -0700 From: "YipKei Kwok" <yipkeikwok@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD IA64 mailing list" <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Installation problem of 5.2 and 7.0 on HP zx6000 Message-ID: <f82da4e80611301733s2ec13e9bl69419f9a04c20131@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I have an Itanium machine, HP zx6000, on which I want to install FreeBSD on it. For some reasons because of patches, I prefer to install FreeBSD 5.X. There are two 73GB SCSI hard drives installed on this machine. The hardware specification can be found on the manufacturer's website [0]. I downloaded the ISO image of the disc 1 of 5.2, filename "5.2-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso", from the official FreeBSD FTP archive [1]. The installation process hangs soon, within 10 seconds, after I selected to boot from a CDROM on the EFI boot option list. Here was the message. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe00000004058000... The machine hanged completely even without response on number lock. Then, I download the ISO image of 7.0 bootonly disc, filename "7.0-CURRENT-200611-ia64-bootonly.iso", from the FreeBSD FTP site [2]. Again, the installation process hangs soon, within 10 seconds, after I selected to boot from a CDROM on the EFI boot option list. Here was the message. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe00000004060000... Again, the machine hanged completely even without any response on number lock. Then, the monitor switched to sleep mode by itself. The `System' LED on the machine changed from green to flashing red and the second light of the 4 LEDs, labeled 1 to 4, turned solid red. After several seconds of warning beeps, the machine rebooted itself. Please be noticed that the installation process of RedHat Enterprise Edition was smooth and successfully on the same machine. Therefore, I don't think it is a hardware problem. Also, I verified the MD5 checksum of both installation discs in order to make sure that neither of the downloaded ISO images is corrupted. I tried the same procedure for several times already but the same problem persisted. Please let me know if you have any suggestion. Thank you! Regards, Yipkei References: [0] http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11664_na/11664_na.HTML [1] ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/5.2/ [2] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200611/ -- Web site: http://360.yahoo.com/yipkeikwok http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~ykwok/ email addresses: yipkeikwok at gmail dot com ykwok2 at utep dot edu ICQ UIN: 2309842 Google Talk ID: yipkeikwok at gmail dot com Yahoo! Messenger ID: yipkeikwok MSN Messenger ID: yipkeikwok at hotmail dot com
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