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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
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The following reply was made to PR ia64/72128; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org,
	freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:01:33 +0200

 On Fri, Oct 08 2004, Arun Sharma wrote:
 > On 10/7/2004 11:02 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
 > 
 > >This may be processor-specific.
 > >
 > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72128
 > 
 > I just tested that the 5.3-beta7 works fine on a 4 way Tiger with 1GB RAM. 
 > I don't think there have been critical bug fixes between beta6 and beta7 
 > that affect the tiger. Also, on a 4GB machine, FreeBSD ignores RAM above 
 > 1GB.
 > 
 > Jens, were you using a serial console ? FreeBSD doesn't support a VGA 
 > console yet on ia64.
 
 I am. I did attach a monitor as well for testing since I didn't know if
 freebsd utilized the serial console automatically. I since looked at the
 boot loader config and saw that it did and the config was correct.
 
 -- 
 Jens Axboe