Precision 730

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Nov 8, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:

> 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 at 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.

The code used to be on the ia64 branch in perforce, but it has been 
moved
to the tty branch in perforce from where it has been removed or 
otherwise
misformed enough to not work anymore. I think I still have a partial 
port
of the X server here somewhere for XFree86-4 or so. So, yes, we used to
have it working in some cases, but even then with limitations.

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