From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 02:37:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0DA16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 02:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com (ausc60ps301.us.dell.com [143.166.148.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1617C43D39 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 02:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Muthu_T@Dell.com) Received: from ausx2kcpc114.aus.amer.dell.com (143.166.5.179) by ausc60ps301.us.dell.com with ESMTP; 12 May 2004 04:37:20 -0500 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:06:28 +0530 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Normal Booting on Dell PE3250 Thread-Index: AcQ39uBUZGn0i+0RQeGHwOyPUV25RQACywAw From: To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2004 09:36:29.0239 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A440470:01C43804] cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Normal Booting on Dell PE3250 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:37:20 -0000 >There's no VGA console support by default. My dmesg shows the following output. pcib1: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at device 1.0 (no driver attached) What is the issue to enable the VGA console in IA64 build? Using Serial Console I can boot like this. mountroot> ufs:da0p6 Mounting root from ufs:da0p6 Pre-seeding PRNG: kickstart. Loading configuration files. Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart. Starting file system checks: Setting hostname: . lo0: flags=3D8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 Additional routing options:. hw.bus.devctl_disable: 0 -> 1 Mounting NFS file systems:. Starting syslogd. May 12 14:35:06 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib Starting usbd. moused: cannot open /dev/consolectl: No such file or directory vidcontrol: must be on a virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for device usbd: '/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/${DEVNAME} -I /var/run/moused.${DEVNAME}.pid ; / usr/sbin/vidcontrol -m on' returned 1 Starting local daemons:. Updating motd ... /etc/motd is not writable, update failed. Generating public/private rsa1 key pair. open /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key failed: Read-only file system. Saving the key failed: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key. Generating public/private dsa key pair. open /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key failed: Read-only file system. Saving the key failed: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key. Generating public/private rsa key pair. open /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key failed: Read-only file system. Saving the key failed: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key. Initial ia64 initialization:. Additional ABI support:. Starting cron. Local package initialization:. Additional TCP options:. Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. Wed May 12 14:35:10 IST 2004 But I cannot get the login: prompt on the serial console. What is the problem? Anything I have to disable in the BIOS? I enabled console redirection to serial port in BIOS. When I press the poweroff button, I get the following on the serial console: Shutting down daemon processes:. Stopping cron. Shutting down local daemons:. Writing entropy file:touch: /entropy: Read-only file system rm: /var/db/entropy: is a directory . Terminated . MWaiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped ACPI-0212: *** Error: No ACPI mode transition supported in this system (enab le/disable both zero) Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped syncing disks, buffers remaining... 1 1 done Uptime: 3m46s Thanks. --T. Muthu Mohan