how to install freebsd on HP rx2600 server

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:30:30PM -0500, David Rhodus wrote:
> 
> On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:29:09AM +0800, chen bo wrote:
> >>   i have a HP rx2600 server ,which has only usb keyboard.
> >>
> >>   because the reason :
> >>	We cannot have a console (i.e. VGA and keyboard) on ia64 because our
> >>console code is PC specific. We probe USB devices, including 
> >>keyboards,
> >>but we cannot use them yet.
> >>
> >>    how to install freebsd5.1 release on the server ?
> >
> >Serial console.
> 
> Is there any chance of that being changed anytime soon? That has to be
> one of the major things stopping me for ordering a ia64 machine to play 
> with....

Not soon. I've been playing with the thought and have actually
started to write a new console subsystem. Both pcvt and syscons
need too much work to make them sufficiently portable that I
don't think it's worth trying to fix them. Also, fixing syscons
implies breaking functionality on i386.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net