Oh right.. ok... sorry... I'll try amd64 Thanks for the heads up!
Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5) On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Powell <nightre...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"