Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:36:50 -0700 From: Chris <eagletree@hughes.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Booting Xserve on 8.0 Message-ID: <9E15A9F3-F67E-4ECC-B1EC-99F65764F831@hughes.net>
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I have two new Xserves (last years units, 2.8 quad cores). After fighting with OSX for two months, I decided to see if I could install FreeBSD since that is what we have always run on our 10 servers since the 90s (and those two months would have been over in two days had we had FreeBSD from the start). I decided to give it a try tonight after a particularly low ebb in the frustration over trying to make OSX, NOT do user friendly enterprise things, but just configure normal simple applications that we take for granted can be configured and stay configured on FreeBSD. I'm wondering if there is someone on the list who may have information on this. I used the "boot from CD" procedure that apple provides at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2778?viewlocale=en_US and it will not boot the 8.0 ISO. I configured one normal intel box using this CD so I think it's a good disk, and I verified that the Xserve would read it as a data disk. But I can't get it to boot on the xserve. Bootloader issue? It pops the disk out and puts the gray folder with a question mark to tell me to give it a disk it can read. I tried the i386 8.0 CD and had the same results. I have read where people are installing the PPC version on xserves. Is it possible the amd64 version is not somehow bootable in a modern xserve? Any ideas? Would it be appropriate to ask this on the amd64 list?
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