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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2007 14:03:45 -0400
From:      "Dominique SA" <domze.sa@gmail.com>
To:        "Gheorghe Ardelean" <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE IA64 on IBM X455
Message-ID:  <31071b200705081103j28aa501fq3b865881eba90d55@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0705081822450.7210-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
References:  <31071b200705080754y13c77ef3r27611c16d8603496@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0705081822450.7210-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>

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I do not have a cable with me, but i was wondering how could this help? any
other alternatives? a rectification, we're actually using EFI 1.1 not 1.2

I researched on the internet, and saw that not a lot of people are using IBM
xServers with FreeBSD. Is FreeBSD not compatible with such servers?

On 5/8/07, Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Dominique SA wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 62-RELEASE IA64 version on an IBM x455 and
> it
> > doesn't get past this stage: (note these lines were taken from another
> > thread, but the numbers and date differ)
> >
> > FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 1.2
> > (root at pluto1.freebsd.org
> > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64>, Tue Apr 10
> > 20:52:15 UTC 2007)
> > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x9ff728 data=0x9b260+0x4cec8
> > syms=[0x8+0x7ad30+0x8+0x67ace]
> > /
> > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> > Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xe000000004068000...
>
> Could you hook-up a serial console to it and see if it does not goes
> further?
>
> Regards,
>
> Johny.
>
>



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