rx2600 need firmware update?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Zach Wilkinson wrote:

> I just installed 8.1 onto a HP rx2600. It booted off the netinst CD and the install appears to have gone through fine.
> 
> However, when the system rebooted at the end of the install, the EFI menu had not been updated with a FreeBSD boot option. I have never installed FreeBSD onto an ia64 system before, but the other OS I have installed have done that, so I just presume FreeBSD does it as well.

FreeBSD does not update the menu at this time.

> Also, what's the general recommendation regarding firmware on the rx2600, and are any additional steps required to update the EFI boot menu.

For firmware updates, I recommend getting the latest.
As for the EFI menu: FreeBSD can be added manually
by selecting loader.efi under /boot on the EFI system
partition.

FYI,

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