8.1-RELEASE ia64

[Samuel Martín Moro]

Oh right.. ok... sorry...
I'll try amd64

Thanks for the heads up!


Samuel Martín Moro
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Powell <nightrecon at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded
> > FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso.
> >
> > When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the
> > blinkingunderscore,
> > nothing else happend.
> > When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a message saying that
> > /boot/loader was not found.
> >
> > Having a look into /boot, I noticed that indeed, there's no loader
> > anymore. But there a loader.efi, which wasn't in FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE (the
> > last I tried).
> > I tried copying loader.efi to loader, but as expected, it says me
> 'invalid
> > format' and still does not want to boot...
>
> Perfectly normal and to be expected. IA64 utilizes a different boot loader
> paradigm known as EFI. More info on EFI can be found here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
>
> > What happened to loader?
> > Did I download the wrong iso?
>
> Probably. The IA64 architecture is a completely different beast than x86.
> If
> your processor is a Xeon or some other regular Intel desktop type you need
> to use the amd64 iso image.
>
> > Did I miss something?
> >
> > Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not?
> >
> Maybe IA64 will not boot from USB because of the EFI boot loader
> requirement.
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
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