[Fwd: Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot]

[Kai Lockwood]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: installing 8.0-current-200906 snapshot
Date: 	Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:11 -0600
From: 	Kai Lockwood <kailockwood at gmail.com>
To: 	Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>
References: 	<20090619130714.GA83427 at mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> 
<b5ef8d5c0906190734x716dc90eh98ce945fd7b088de at mail.gmail.com> 
<20090619161757.GA83945 at mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>



Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:34:49AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
>   
>> I encounter the same error message. It means that for what ever reason
>> the kernel cannot negotiate DMA transfers with the CD drive. You can
>> either ignore it or stop the boot loader and run the command: set
>> hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
>>     
>
> thank you, I was able to install the minimal configuration.
> However, on reboot, I can't see where my FBSD is.. So I can't boot it.
>
> I can see this:
>
> fs0:\boot> ls
> Directory of: fs0:\boot
>
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  .
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>              0  ..
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  defaults
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  firmware
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  kernel
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  modules
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>          8,192  zfs
>   06/19/09  04:09p <DIR>         57,344  GENERIC
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.efi
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  support.4th
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.rc
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.4th
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  skiload
>   06/12/09  06:56p       r            0  device.hints
>   06/12/09  06:55p       r            0  loader.help
>           7 File(s)           0 bytes
>           8 Dir(s)
>
>
> fs0:\boot>
>
>
>
> fs0: is a disk
>
> Not sure what to do next. And why is loader.efi zero size?
>
>   
The most important question I have at this point is why are all the 
files a zero size. I'm going to try copying the efi directory on the 
boot CD to the one on the hard drive and see what happens.