Dell PE3250 + FreeBSD 5.2.1

[Muthu_T at Dell.com]

Hi Jason,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason M. Leonard [mailto:fuzz at ldc.upenn.edu] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 3:47 AM
> To: Arun Sharma
> Cc: T, Muthu; freebsd-ia64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Dell PE3250 + FreeBSD 5.2.1
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 

With above line I can able to see the boot outputs in the Hyperterminal.
But when the Options (1 for Standard ANSI terminal, 2 for VT100
terminal, etc..),
are displayed whatever input I press, nothing happens. 
I don't know whether Hyperterminal doesn't transfer the input to
otherside, 
Or the Other side (kernel) is not reading from the serial input.

So I am struct at this Terminal selection screen.

BTW, what needs to be done to use the standard console screen instead of
serialconsole
For FreeBSD-IA64? 

Redhat AS2.1/AS3.0 supports standard console for IA-64 installation.

Any comments?

Thanks.


> 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
> >
> 

T. Muthu Mohan