Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:42:17 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Cc: Eric Innis <E2@lugatgt.org> Subject: Re: Precision 730 Message-ID: <200411081842.17698.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040929212053.GA25098@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <20040928193111.GC16618@fork.triblock.com> <20040929202809.GA9934@fork.triblock.com> <20040929212053.GA25098@ns1.xcllnt.net>
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On Wednesday 29 September 2004 02:20 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Eric Innis wrote: > > > Use a serial console and capture the output. You need to be way > > > more descriptive than telling us the kernel "stalls" if you want > > > us to be of any help. > > > > Ok, sorry about the lack of info, I was hoping someone had already > > seen this problem. Anywho, the machine is the Dell Precision 730 > > dual 800mhz Itanium with 133mhz fsb > > > > booting to the fBSD cds (5.3, or 5.2.1) gives this output: > > > > > > Loading: CD/DVD ROM/PCI(3|1)/ATA(Primary, Master) > > Starting: CD/DVD ROM/PCI(3|1)/ATA(Primary, Master) > > Console: EFI Console > > Image base: 0x000000007f054000 > > > > FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 1.1 > > (root@pluto1.freebsd.org, Tues Feb 24 00:33:30 GMT 2004) > > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > > /boot/kernel/kernel data = 0x8df568+0x3b858 > > syms=[0x8+ox68920+0x8+0x53f8f] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately... > > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] > > Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe000000004058000... > > _ > > ^ > > ^Blinky Cursor > > We don't have a VGA based console yet on ia64. Use a serial console > instead. This will change over time of course... There is (or was) code kicking around that patches syscons and vga into working for the old 460GX based systems. I run my precision 730 with vga syscons still. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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