rx2600 need firmware update?

[B. Estrade]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:38:49AM -0700, Zach Wilkinson wrote:
> Brett,
> 
> I powered on the system and inserted the CD disc.
> 
> At the EFI boot menu I selected CDROM. The FreeBSD/ia64 loader displayed. After it loaded the kernel into memory it briefly offered me the opportunity to select a non-default boot config. I let this pass.

Thank you; I think that I didn't get this option.

> 
> The display then transferred from the VGA console to the serial console where standard kernel messages appeared as part of a standard bootup. Immediately after that sysinstall automatically displayed on the serial console and I select the Standard Install option.
> 
> As I previously had Ubuntu installed on this system, I re-partitioned the disk as follows.
> 0: /efi (default size)
> 1: swap (16gb, 2xRAM)
> 2: / (3gb)
> 3: /var (3gb)
> 4: /usr (~47gb)
> 
> I pulled an IP address from DHCP and I enabled IPv6.
> 
> I selected the Developer install set.

I am assuming you committed the installation at this point and it did
its thing...

> 
> I created one non-root account.
> 
> I enable SSH but no other services.
> 
> I installed no packages but did install the ports collection.
> 
> At the end I selected to exit sysinstall which initiated a reboot.
> 
> That's a rough account of how it went.

Thank you - I am going to attempt a netinstall. I do not think that
the fact that my media was cd/dvd had anything to do with the reboot,
but you never know. I also need to figure out if the machine stores an
MCA error record and how to recover it on the subsequent boot.

Cheers,
Brett

> 
> --- On Fri, 7/30/10, B. Estrade <estrabd at cs.uh.edu> wrote:
> 
> > From: B. Estrade <estrabd at cs.uh.edu>
> > Subject: Re: rx2600 need firmware update?
> > To: "FreeBSD ia64" <freebsd-ia64 at freebsd.org>
> > Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:07 AM
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07:02AM
> > -0700, 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.
> > > 
> > > I'm not the original owner of this system, so it's
> > very likely that firmware has never been updated. I'm
> > wondering if the firmware currently installed is defective
> > or somehow incompatible with the FreeBSD/ia64 installer such
> > that the boot menu is not getting updated.
> > > 
> > > Also, what's the general recommendation regarding
> > firmware on the rx2600, and are any additional steps
> > required to update the EFI boot menu.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > Zach,
> > 
> > I offer no help, but you might be able to help me. I gather
> > that the
> > rx2600 is very similar to the zx6000 on which I am having
> > a
> > spontaneous reboot problem during sysinstall.
> > 
> > I was wondering if you could provide a basic recount of the
> > steps you
> > too to install FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Brett
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >? ? ???
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