From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 18:40:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CB516A4CF for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from speedbuggy.telerama.com (speedbuggy.telerama.com [205.201.1.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC9E743D48 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@telerama.com) Received: (qmail 79379 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2005 18:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.22.1.21?) (m@67.103.106.42) by speedbuggy.telerama.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 2005 18:40:40 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:41:10 -0500 From: m To: Rick Jones Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <420A5459.2000306@hp.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD IA64 5.3/RELEASE on Compaq DL590. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:40:43 -0000 > From: Rick Jones > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:20:09 -0800 > To: "Mark J. Nernberg" > Cc: > Subject: Re: FreeBSD IA64 5.3/RELEASE on Compaq DL590. > > Mark J. Nernberg wrote: >> Has anyone successfully booted IA64 BSD 5.3 on a Compaq DL590 machine? >> >> The DL590 is a multiprocessor Itanium machine; we just picked one up, and >> I'm having problems booting from the install disk -- all goes OK until it >> gets to "Entering Kernel", at which point it freezes, completely. >> >> Any help would be most appreciated; if anyone requires more information to >> assist, I will gladly provide it. > > I've not been following the BSD stuff closely enough to know, but would ask if > 5.3 still supports "Merced" systems? IIRC the DL590 was a Merced system - aka > Itanium1. While it might be of academic interest, a Merced system isn't > really > one of the best places to be for IA64. An Itanium2-based system would likely > be > a much better place if you want to get a feel for what Itanium is like. The DL590 is a Merced system. Any ideas what other BSD/UNIX OS will run on this platform? Of course, FreeBSD is by far preferred. > rick jones > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >