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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
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On Tue, Nov 02 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Synopsis: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: marcel
> State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 2 06:29:18 GMT 2004
> State-Changed-Why: 
> The PR describes the typical case of not using a serial console or
> not having the serial console setup correctly. Given that the box
> does not create the DIG64 HCDP table, there's no other way to tell
> the kernel which serial port to use than setting the hw.uart.console
> variable.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72128

Sorry for the delay, was travelling. Yes, I can confirm that setting the
console device to 2e8 works for me.

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Jens Axboe