Dell PE3250 + FreeBSD 5.2.1

[Jason M. Leonard]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Arun Sharma wrote:

> On 4/27/2004 5:05 AM, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
>
> > After the following line, I see only the blinking cursor.
> >
> > "Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe000000004058000..."
> >
>
> Here's what I use on a Intel Tiger4, which I believe is pretty close to the PE3250.
>
> hint.sio.0.flags=0
> hint.sio.1.flags=0x90
> hint.uart.0.flags=0
> hint.uart.1.flags=0x90
> hint.uart.0.port=0x2f8
> boot_serial="YES"

This is sufficient to boot the 5.2.1 installer on a PE3250:

hint.uart.0.port=0x2f8

Also needed, but set by default, are:

hint.uart.0.flags=0x10
hint.uart.0.baud=115200		# or your baud of choice


:Fuzz

>
> And after the install, I use this in my:
>
> /boot1/boot/loader.conf.local: (/boot1 = EFI mount point)
>
> <The lines above>
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da1s4a"
> kernel="/kernel/my-custom-kernel"
>
> If your box doesn't have a PS/2 keyboard, in order to get the USB keyboard working:
>
> /etc/rc.conf:
>
> usbd_enable="YES"
>
> /etc/rc.ia64:
>
> kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1 < /dev/ttyv0 > /dev/null
>
> 	-Arun
>