4 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-ia64Re: install on Dell Precision WorkSta...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Eichert, Diana | Feb 8, 2003 3:29 am | |
| Marcel Moolenaar | Feb 8, 2003 12:37 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Feb 8, 2003 1:33 pm | |
| Eichert, Diana | Feb 8, 2003 3:15 pm |
| Subject: | Re: install on Dell Precision WorkStation 730 | |
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| From: | Peter Wemm (pet...@wemm.org) | |
| Date: | Feb 8, 2003 1:33:16 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-ia64 | |
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:29:52AM -0700, Eichert, Diana wrote:
I just inherited a Dell Precision WorkStation 730 at work, right before it goes to the junk pile. So I thought I'd try to get FreeBSD 5.0 running on it. First, I did all this from keyboard/vga monitor connected to the system.
When I boot with the mini-inst CD in the drive it fails looking for a kernel. ls'ng the CD shows a kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz. more'ng the loader.rc under fs2a:/boot I see the list of commands the loader would walk through, except the files it references are not gzipped's files.
Steps I follow (I'm typing this from memory): set currdev=fs2a: load kernel.gz load fails, are gzipp'd kernels supported?
Yes, they are. You probably need to give a pathname. Try prefixing a slash (load /kernel.gz).
Probably the easiest way to install FreeBSD is to copy the files from the EFI partition on the CD to the EFI partition on disk. The loader has fs0: hardcoded for now, which messes things up when you already have an EFI partition.
BTW: A quick search on the Dell site does not give me anything about the 730. Did they gave it an early retirement?
It's a black case version of the BigSur. The only difference that I can see is that the power-on firmware beep is a different pitch and it boots a little quicker than the white BigSurs that I have. Oh, and the splash screen is different. The firmware is interchangeable though....
Cheers, -Peter
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