UEFI Boot on ia64

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Michal Nosek

Hi,

I tried install FreeBSD 10.1 to old HP Itanium server.
UEFI boot and instalation from CD was OK, but I don't learn how to make uefi boot partition on the disk.
I created fat16 partition and copied into /EFI/BOOT/ file loader.efi from /boot dir. This Ok and uefi see it, but received error message: cannot find kernel.
I found in manuals and forums, that I should be copy to boot partition boot1.efi, but I cannot find it in /boot directory nor install CD :-(
 
Are you certain that your old Itanium machine uses UEFI? The ia64 architecture used to use the old EFI standard.
There are probably enough differences there that using UEFI isn't going to work.
 
Probably yes. But CD boot, and in boot partition on CD is bootia64.efi. I think, if i will copy it to boot partition on disk, it could be boot.
 
I created fat32 partition and copy /boot/defaults, /boot/kernel and /boot/loader*
And it boot.
But I don't know how to set root mount partition, it still trying to mount cdrom as root. If I type mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0p2, its boot.
 
It is funny that it was useless :)
I had the idea that I install Virtualbox and virtual machines. But VirtualBox cannot install to ia64 :)
 
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