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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
