Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:17:19 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Alan.Robinson@fujitsu-siemens.com Cc: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing on HP zx6000 Message-ID: <20030131181719.C33C82A89E@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030131184832.A2353@fujitsu-siemens.com>
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Alan Robinson wrote: > Hi. > > I have just got a zx6000 with linux runing on it and would > prefer to use FreeBSD. I downloaded two 5.0 ISO images and set up > a serial console. The boot starts, the boot loader works OK, lsmod > etc but as soon as the system jumps into the kernel the machine > resets. I assume this is the same problem as the hp rx2600. > > I have a i386 machine with a cvsup mirror and have done test builds > of buildworld and buildkernel with TARGET_ARCH=ia64 GENERIC but I > have not actually done anything with what was built. > > Suggestions Please. Unfortunately, the 5.0 release is missing quite a few bits that are fairly essential for running on the HP boxes. In particular, the vga and sio drivers assume that the vga and serial ports behave like ISA devices still, but on the HP boxes they do not - they are completely utterly legacy-free. We do have an experimental development branch which has some pretty radical divergance from the main FreeBSD source in this area, particularly on the sio and vga/syscons drivers. It does run on the HP boxes. We use two HP rx2600's as "reference" machines on the freebsd project cluster, but they run the development build, not the released build. Marcel muttered something about making an ISO from this alternative tree so that it could boot on the HP boxes if there was demand... It looks like there is more already than I was expecting... Meanwhile, you can get the source that we use on the HP boxes using a special cvsup collection of "p4-cvs-ia64", which is *only* on cvsup10.freebsd.org. It will check out in a subdir of projects/ia64/*, so put it somewhere out of the way and set up some symlinks or something. You should be able to cross build that without too much drama. You should only need the kernel parts in order to get things to boot and install. Cheers, -Peter -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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