From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 21:45:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 995C21065673 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwilde1@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FB88FC0A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwilde1@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e11so2246529rng.7 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:45:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=iTZeTXNCqh5/lYaJKPlD/LDSrnuEibN9OdXn9+H8Mew=; b=kIBTx6nAG99PcU2Sginr/+w9afP92lCjnR1q4av9gv+kgs+DCfVwrMxJt4LktfUPpCT9VVdp3Wl6ZZbEzqwouVNg9bnCPSaBWbASS/HaTo1aNKKgT2wkY16lSSeI1fx8ktaNydTNBGivSwWxGSWXGR3rfUgmzv5ZBC4aXdDDzlo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Rl13Esy8gLvrzpzP5PBre+EBBjLXc23URUKOmH+li7KSOjky3lB+o08NxtlsJrvgc6+ow9K6x04Tuy31fMeudOApD75NxqGG2rg/A6TS/DjsF9BT5+xu/g+uscrS2D/Y4pptLZ8otkDa3Nj1rNd37KDW0S1POc+rt3l8zrRc5LM= Received: by 10.114.93.17 with SMTP id q17mr8207566wab.70.1207691105516; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.152.6 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:45:05 -0500 From: "Don Wilde" To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080331064434.GD82555@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080331064434.GD82555@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: a fun project X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dwilde1@gmail.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:45:07 -0000 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Don Wilde wrote this message on Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:53 -0500: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Pete French < > petefrench@ticketswitch.com> > > wrote: > > > > That's why I'm talking about building an ftp mirror; I'm also thinking > > that's going to be my best bet. Yes, it does have ethernet on the base > > system, but the dmesg flew by too fast for me to see whether the probe > > identified them. IIRC, they're Broadcom GBE's. > > Check out section 2.13.2 at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html > > You can use the install cd for that "ftp mirror"... > > New news, guys. I successfully booted the AMD64 6.3-RELEASE kernel on our big blade. I still have to deal with installation issues regarding loading the disk, but this time it went all the way through. Still don't know why 7.0 didn't complete probing, but at least I can look forward to establishing an amd64-compiled system and exploring further from there. -- :D