install problems for freeBSD 6 on tyan i7520
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 8 09:18:01 PST 2005
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:52 am, ke.han wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:47 am, ke.han wrote:
> >
> >
> > lsdev in the loader uses the BIOS. The kernel is not able to use the
> > BIOS to talk to drives. Can you hook up a serial console and capture
> > verbose boot messages? We need some more details such as what kind of
> > ATA controller you are trying to use.
>
> The tyan i7520 specs are at:
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7520_spec.html
>
> I would love to capture more info and send it in. Sounds like I need a
> serial cable? Any specific pin arrangement? Is there a howto on this?
> I have a working laptop with freeBSD 6. Do I just connect the laptop to
> the server some way?
Just a null modem cable would work fine. There's info in the handbook at
www.freebsd.org on how to setup a serial console.
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