Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:40:12 GMT From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sparc64/107087: system is hinged during boot from CD Message-ID: <200612231440.kBNEeCvm069577@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR sparc64/107087; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: bazylt <bazylt@gtut.internetdsl.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/107087: system is hinged during boot from CD
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:39:40 +0100
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0000, bazylt wrote:
> >Environment:
> SUN Enterprise 450
> >Description:
> The system is hinged during loading kernel from bootable CDROM (6.1-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1 & 6.1-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly)
> The message on console:
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> nothing to autoload yet
> jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0060000
>
> The same problem on the Enterprise 250
That's most likely due to using an unsupported video card;
with E{2,4}50 you're only choice are machfb(4)-compatible
cards (i.e. Sun PGX and PGX64, but not PGX32) so far besides
a serial console (for E250 this includes the integrated RSC).
Marius
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