FreeBSD on IA64

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:24 AM, gerhard.dorner at hob.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an Itanium64. How can I  
> redirect the
> output of the serial console during boot to the monitor? Is it even  
> possible?

It is not possible yet. The syscons console in FreeBSD makes
assumptions that are valid on PCs, but are typically not
valid on legacy free Itanium machines. These assumptions
typically cause a machine check abort...

FYI,

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