installing from CD

[Marc Loerner]

Hello!

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:50:00 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:36:01PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > It feels as if the installation program leaves the system
> > > in some unclean state. I actually have to disconnect the power
> > > cord to get to the EFI console.
> >
> > Hmmm, I never encountered this. A firmware upgrade (the MP's in
> > this case) may be what's called for.
>
> I reflushed the firmware, and checked the system with HP offline
> diagnostics CD - no problems found, all seems fine.
>
> I also switched to using LAN on MP, instead of the serial console, and
> now reboot goes fine. However, loader.efi is still zero size.
>

Some time ago, I had the same problem. I came around this by changing standard 
partitioning size of efi to 256-512 MB. So all modules, kernel, loader, modules 
with debug-symbols fitted on it.

> I'm probably wrong, but does the FBSD installation
> program on i386 and on alpha ask about creating MBR?
> Is it relevant at all?