Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:57:27 -0700 From: Sean Hafeez <sah.list@gmail.com> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jumping to kernel entry - 5.4 Message-ID: <69889da305051510571a8f98d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050515193306.B15193@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <69889da30505141501c9edc55@mail.gmail.com> <20050515193306.B15193@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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So I guess if I wanted to run this as a gnome2 workstation I am looking at installing via console and building a custom kernel. You know I read the install info. I could not find were it said, btw, your nice 23 inch monitor and such will not work for the install :0 Thanks for the info! Think I will wait for 5.5 as I was just planing on playing with this - I will stick to 5.4 on my i386 system for now. -Sean On 5/15/05, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:01:02PM -0700, Sean Hafeez wrote: > > Thought I would try 5.4 on my Ultra60 with 2x350Mhz CPUs. Booting from > > the CD I get to.. > > > > jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0040000 > > > > and the system hangs there. Did a seach and the only thing I could > > find was some other people asking about it at: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2005-April/003028.ht= ml > > > > So anyone got a fix? Anything info I need to post? > > >=20 > You're most likely not using a serial console. FreeBSD/sparc64 up > to including 5.4 only really supports serial consoles. Prior to 5.4 > however the FreeBSD/sparc64 GENERIC kernels came with ofw_console(4) > enabled which happens to work with graphical consoles to a certain > extent. In the FreeBSD/sparc64 5.4 GENERIC kernel that bit of > support for graphical consoles was traded for proper serial console > support (which also just sucked when driven by ofw_console(4) on > a machine that uses a chip not supported by sab(4) or zs(4)) by > switching from the ofw_console(4)/sab(4)/zs(4) combination to > uart(4). > If you want to use FreeBSD/sparc64 5.4 with a graphical console > anyway you have to compile a custom kernel. On a machine with a > Creator, Creator3D or Elite3D card and a RS232 keyboard you > should use the creator(4)/syscons(4)/uart(4). Otherwise your > only choice is to revert to ofw_console(4). Note that uart(4) > can't be used together with ofw_console(4) in the same kernel as > ofw_console(4) isn't a proper driver causing both to conflict > at several levels. > There's no simple "fix" to this other than to complete the > native support for graphical consoles in FreeBSD/sparc64. As > it currently stands FreeBSD 6.0 and 5.5 most likely will support > graphical consoles on most of the sparc64 machines FreeBSD > currently runs on in the GENERIC kernel (read: expect SBus- > based and non-Mach64 PCI graphics cards and PS/2 keyboards). >=20 > Marius >=20 >
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