SOLVED: Problem booting installation in Supermicro IA64

jmruiz at correo.animatika.net jmruiz at correo.animatika.net
Wed Dec 1 05:46:09 PST 2004


> Hi,
>
> I've here a dual itanium2 supermicro machine (chipset E8870) and I can't
> install FreeBSD 5.3 because the booting get blocked after the first step
> (after the kernel and modules are loaded and I press ENTER).
>
> I've read that FreeBSD IA64 doesn't support VGA, then I've changed the
> BIOS settings to boot with serial port, but I only get garbage.
>
> Do you have experience with Supermicro IA64 + FreeBSD?
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks.

The problem was the serial connections settings, sorry.




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