On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:07:27PM +0200, 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... > > What happened to loader? > Did I download the wrong iso?
probably.. Perhaps you meant amd64? What's your computer make/model? > Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not? ia64 wouldn't boot via USB. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ 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"
