Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:41:19 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 Message-ID: <28d550f679ed7c420a78edff8c53e3a7@antiszoc.hu> In-Reply-To: <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <CAGMYy3s2t97OZ-yJ7tE_1gHa61nPAu_wYkR8yU4C-j-Y=ze8oQ@mail.gmail.com> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu>
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200, Gót András wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:15:26AM +0200, G??t Andr??s wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote: >>> >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, G??t Andr??s <andrej@antiszoc.hu> >>> >wrote: >>> >>Dear All, >>> >> >>> >>I'd like to install FreeBSD onto az IBM X3550 M3 which looks >>> >>like UEFI only. >>> >>Is it possible to have FreeBSD amd64 get working on it or should >>> >>I forget >>> >>it? :( >>> > >>> >Will it do traditional MBR boot by any chance? As a last resort >>> >workaround, it might be possible to take its hard drive to another >>> >system and install grub which will boot FreeBSD but supports EFI. >>> > >>> >(We should implement EFI on amd64 by the way). >>> > >>> >Cheers, >>> >>> Take the hard drive out is not really an option because of the >>> M5014 >>> HW RAID and the SAS backplane. :) >>> >>> Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I >>> think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in >>> the evening. >> >> It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a >> RAID >> controller to boot from one of its underlying drives. I guess >> there's >> only one way to find out... ;-) > > The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the > initial disk group and volume group config on it. :) > Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able > got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with > Linux. > > For the record. I also found something about someone couldn't even > boot Windows Server install CD on this machine and he had to update > to > firmware. There's also something about OpenBSD that went with a clean > install, but after the it freezes randomly. > > Andras Thank you for all the tips. Fortunately it turned out to be simple. Finally, I got an USB DVD drive from my father and that made the trick. Memstick image or unetbootin pendrive installs won't work as it looks like. However, if I can help with testing memstick images I can do it until Oct 25. The unfortunate is that there not a single error about the memstick, it simply doesn't work. I also tried Ubuntu Lucid CD image written (with startup disk creator) to a pendrive and that also worked. First I tried 9-BETA3, but that failed with cannot mount root error. (Sorry I couldn't save the exact error message.) Then I thought I'll give a try to the 8.2-RELEASE. That worked out of the box with the RAID card and everything. The next big question is how easily will I install the 2 146GB disks that were left off the package. :) I'm going to find out it on Friday evening. Regards, Andras Andras
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