Freebsd on a Montecito (ia64)

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:07 AM, gerhard.dorner at hob.de wrote:

> hi,
> i've tried to install FreeBSD-ia64 6.1 on a Montecito(ia64) and  
> system stopped
> on the line "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0"
>
> what can i do ?

It looks to me that the low-level serial console works, but that
the UART is not found during bus-enumeration so that when you
try to get to multi-user (which happens after "Trying root...")
there's no device to open. Watch the boot and see if there's an
uart marked as console, like:

uart3: <16550 or compatible> iomem 0xff5e0000-0xff5e0007 irq 34 on acpi0
uart3: [FAST]
uart3: console (115200,n,8,1)

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