> Please assist me in acquiring more information, as there currently is no output at all on the > serial console I am attached to (via the management console, which is set up in EFI as the > default console, which appears in Linux as ttyS3). Usually I get output right from the start, > so I assume that the problem must be very early in the boot process. Did you try the ia64 early console options. See Documentation/ia64/serial.txt ... boot argument you need to add on a rx2600 will look something like this: console=uart,mmio,0xff5e0000 but the hex number will be whatever you need for ttyS3 (run "dmesg | grep tty" on your kernel that does boot to find the right value). -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html