Precision 730

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Eric Innis wrote:
> > 
> > Use a serial console and capture the output. You need to be way more
> > descriptive than telling us the kernel "stalls" if you want us to be
> > of any help.
> 
> 
> Ok, sorry about the lack of info, I was hoping someone had already
> seen this problem.  Anywho, the machine is the Dell Precision 730
> dual 800mhz Itanium with 133mhz fsb
> 
> booting to the fBSD cds (5.3, or 5.2.1) gives this output:
> 
> 
> Loading: CD/DVD ROM/PCI(3|1)/ATA(Primary, Master)
> Starting: CD/DVD ROM/PCI(3|1)/ATA(Primary, Master)
> Console: EFI Console
> Image base:  0x000000007f054000
> 
> FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 1.1 
> (root at pluto1.freebsd.org, Tues Feb 24 00:33:30 GMT 2004)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /boot/kernel/kernel data = 0x8df568+0x3b858 syms=[0x8+ox68920+0x8+0x53f8f]
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately...
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]
> Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe000000004058000...
> _
> ^
> ^Blinky Cursor

We don't have a VGA based console yet on ia64. Use a serial console
instead. This will change over time of course...

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net