Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:54:32 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Joachim Fehn <Joachim.Fehn@fujitsu-siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 20040214 snapshot available on ftp2.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040219175432.GA14074@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200402191510.11373.Joachim.Fehn@fujitsu-siemens.com> References: <20040215223032.GA67458@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200402191510.11373.Joachim.Fehn@fujitsu-siemens.com>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Joachim Fehn wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 23:30, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Gang, > > > > I uploaded a new snapshot to ftp2.freebsd.org. The snapshot fixes > > the installation problem, as well as fixes the ATA problem. Please > > try it out. > > I tried it on a HP ZX6000 on an empty scsi disk (id 1). > There are a FreeBSD 5.1 installation (id 0) and an otherwise used disk (id 2), > which I don't want to modfiy. > > 1. Installation created a gpt disk label and completed. When rebooting, > neither the EFI boot manager, nor the EFI built in shell could access a > slice/partition on the disk. The loader was not found. The loader is installed in the EFI system partition, as well as the kernel. > 2. I created an msdos slice with fat32, using ia64-Linux. Unlike 5.1, the > snapshot didn't offer the wanted disk, but only the 3rd disk. I see no way to > prepare the wanted disk, that the installation will go there. Note that if the disk has a MBR, it will not be accepted. Make sure you didn't create a MBR with the Linux tool. The best thing to do is to make the disk truely empty, which boils down to clobbering sectors 0 and 1. > 3. I removed the disks 0 and 2, plugged the empty disk to id 0. The > installation aborted, because it didn't find any disk. See previous comment. If there's a MBR on the disk that's not a PMBR, sysinstall will not use the disk. HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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