From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Hirstius Subject: Re: Booting Xen/ia64 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:15:49 +0100 Message-ID: <41E4DCB5.7080200@cern.ch> References: <516F50407E01324991DD6D07B0531AD51A9545@cacexc12.americas.cpqcorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <516F50407E01324991DD6D07B0531AD51A9545@cacexc12.americas.cpqcorp.net> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5vard_Bjerke?= , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi, On our boxes the access to the serial console is done via the management processor, so the baud rate is limited to 9600 :-( If this a problem, I can use another serial port on the machine. One of the firmware versions might be a problem, since the machine is quite old (more than 2 years). But the latest available firmware (2.31) is installed... Here is a dump of "info fw" in the EFI shell: FIRMWARE INFORMATION Firmware Revision: 2.31 [4411] PAL_A Revision: 7.31/5.37 PAL_B Revision: 5.65 SAL Spec Revision: 3.01 SAL_A Revision: 2.00 SAL_B Revision: 2.31 EFI Spec Revision: 1.10 EFI Intel Drop Revision: 14.61 EFI Build Revision: 1.22 POSSE Revision: 0.10 ACPI Revision: 7.00 BMC Revision 1.52 IPMI Revision: 1.00 SMBIOS Revision: 2.3.2a Management Processor Revision: E.02.10 With standard Linux the output goes to both consoles, except the part where the services start up. Andreas Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote: >>This is on both serial and video. And yes, "root=/dev/sda2" >>works with standard Linux. >> >>It's an rx2600. >> >> > >Hmmm... mysterious. This is the same box I am using and the >same bits. Perhaps a baud rate problem on the serial port? >The hack I mentioned assumes 115200. (This can be configured >via the EFI shell.) When I am running Linux, I use >"console=ttyS0,115200" but I don't know if specifying a >different baud rate for Xen/ia64 will work (yet). > >Otherwise could be different firmware versions, but one wouldn't >expect that to cause this kind of a problem. > >When you boot real Linux with the same console= are you getting >boot output on the VGA display? > >Dan > > > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt