sparc64/107087: system is hinged during boot from CD

[Marius Strobl]

The following reply was made to PR sparc64/107087; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de>
To: bazylt <bazylt at gtut.internetdsl.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/107087: system is hinged during boot from CD
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:39:40 +0100

 On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0000, bazylt wrote:
 > >Environment:
 > SUN Enterprise 450
 > >Description:
 > The system is hinged during loading kernel from bootable CDROM (6.1-RELEASE-sparc64-disc1 & 6.1-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly)
 > The message on console:
 > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
 > nothing to autoload yet
 > jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0060000
 > 
 > The same problem on the Enterprise 250 
 
 That's most likely due to using an unsupported video card;
 with E{2,4}50 you're only choice are machfb(4)-compatible
 cards (i.e. Sun PGX and PGX64, but not PGX32) so far besides
 a serial console (for E250 this includes the integrated RSC).
 
 Marius