From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sat Feb 8 12:38:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E646B37B41A for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:38:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388B043F85 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h18KbfYZ000726; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h18Kbd9l000725; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:37:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:37:39 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "Eichert, Diana" Cc: "'freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: install on Dell Precision WorkStation 730 Message-ID: <20030208203739.GA573@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03781128C7B74B4DBC27C55859C9D7380B9DDB53@es06snlnt.sandia.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:29:52AM -0700, Eichert, Diana wrote: > I just inherited a Dell Precision WorkStation 730 at > work, right before it goes to the junk pile. So I > thought I'd try to get FreeBSD 5.0 running on it. > First, I did all this from keyboard/vga monitor > connected to the system. > > When I boot with the mini-inst CD in the drive it > fails looking for a kernel. ls'ng the CD shows a > kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz. more'ng the loader.rc > under fs2a:/boot I see the list of commands the > loader would walk through, except the files it > references are not gzipped's files. > > Steps I follow (I'm typing this from memory): > set currdev=fs2a: > load kernel.gz > load fails, are gzipp'd kernels supported? Yes, they are. You probably need to give a pathname. Try prefixing a slash (load /kernel.gz). Probably the easiest way to install FreeBSD is to copy the files from the EFI partition on the CD to the EFI partition on disk. The loader has fs0: hardcoded for now, which messes things up when you already have an EFI partition. BTW: A quick search on the Dell site does not give me anything about the 730. Did they gave it an early retirement? HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message