FreeBSD IA64 5.3/RELEASE on Compaq DL590. (boot error)

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> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:57:16PM -0500, m wrote:
>> My apologies for being a pain in the butt on this, but I haven't done
>> much
>> with serial consoles.
>>
>> I'm expecting that I should:
>>
>> 1.) Connect a null-modem serial cable from the Compaq to a WinPOS.
>> 2.) start Hyperterminal in VT100 mode @ 9600/8/1
>> 3.) Boot the BSD CD
>>
>> And, then, at the appropriate time, the display will appear on the
>> serial
>> terminal?
>
> Basicly, yes. You need to tell EFI to provide the console on
> the serial console too of course. You do that in the EFI
> configuration menu.
>
>> Or do I have to do something on the serial terminal end of things?
>
> You may need to select the right emulation mode, but you should
> not have to worry about that at first. The biggest issue is
> the actual serial speed. Nowadays, 9600 baud is uncommon for new
> hardware. If you get garbage, try 19200 or 115200 baud.
>
> Note that you should be able to have the EFI output sent to both
> the serial port and the display. You should therefore be able to
> navigate the EFI menus from behind the keyboard and display. Once
> FreeBSD boots (i.e. when you though FreeBSD hang), you should
> only get the output on the serial port. This should help you to
> set up the serial port.


OK!

Finally, I see what I expected to be seeing!

However, the boot stops with the following error:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 09:32:33 UTC 2004
    root at pluto1.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
CPU: Merced (733.46-Mhz Itanium)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Revision = 6
  Features = 0x0
real memory  = 1064075264 (1014 MB)
avail memory = 1016291328 (969 MB)
FPSWA Revision = 0x10005, Entry = 0xe00000003f914050
Using ACPI2.0 table at 0xf4f60
acpi0: <COMPAQ SERVER_> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1208-0x120b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <display, VGA> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <bridge, PCI-ISA> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: <Intel ICH UDMA66 controller> port
0x1000-0x100f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f
6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82372FB/82468GX USB controller> port 0x2400-0x241f irq 49 at
devic
e 7.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82372FB/82468GX USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 9.0 (no driver
attached)

pci0: <base peripheral> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <bridge, HOST-PCI> at device 16.0 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pci5: <base peripheral> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci13: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
pci13: <base peripheral> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
pcib3: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci17: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
pci17: <base peripheral> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
pcib4: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci21: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci21
pcib5: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \_SB_.PCI4.S9F0 -
AE_NOT_FO
UND
pci22: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5
fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xb000-0xb03f mem
0x50300000-0x503ffff
f,0x50201000-0x50201fff irq 87 at device 4.0 on pci22
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:08:02:3c:e8:40
fxp1: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xb040-0xb07f mem
0x50500000-0x505ffff
f,0x50401000-0x50401fff irq 97 at device 5.0 on pci22
miibus1: <MII bus> on fxp1
inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
inphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp1: Ethernet address: 00:08:02:3c:e8:41
pci21: <base peripheral> at device 15.0 (no driver attached)
pcib6: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci25: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6
ida0: <Compaq Integrated Array controller> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
0x43000000-0x4
3ffffff,0x41000000-0x41ffffff irq 110 at device 8.0 on pci25
ida0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

fatal kernel trap (cpu 0):

    trap vector = 0x14 (Page Not Present)
    cr.iip      = 0xe000000004288350
    cr.ipsr     = 0x1210080a2010 (mfl,ic,dt,dfh,rt,cpl=0,it,ri=1,bn)
    cr.isr      = 0x20400000000 (code=0,vector=0,r,ei=1)
    cr.ifa      = 0xa0000000dbd0610c
    curthread   = 0xe0000000049815e8
        pid = 0, comm = swapper

[thread 0]
Stopped at      ida_command+0x2e1:      [M1]    ld8 r14=[r14]
db>

(Cut/pasted from the terminal window).

Any ideas?

I'm suspecting that there is no kernel loadable for the Compaq Disk Array,
perhaps?

Thanks for the help thus far!

Mark.