Re: HP ZX6000 & Debian "testing"

This bug was reported August 2011 and now it's Jan 2012 and still no work around. Is there anything I can do to help? Compile a kernel from git? Test a patch? I'm a fairly competent programmer -- is there any explanation of the issue that just needs some programmer love? I don't have any experience with IA64 assembly, unfortunately, but I can do quite a bit in C.

Patrick

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Émeric Maschino <emeric.maschino@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Patrick,

And welcome aboard :-)

Aren't you hitting this issue?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=638068

In this case, the only solution at this time is to downgrade
initramfs-tools from 0.99 to 0.98.8. But you'll have to downgrade
kernel too, as Debian kernels > 2.6.39 require initramfs-tools 0.99.

Hope this helps,

Émeric

Le 13 janvier 2012 16:16, Patrick Baggett <baggett.patrick@gmail.com> a écrit :

> All,
>
> I just got an HP ZX6000, and I'm very pleased with how quickly Debian
> "squeeze" installed on it. I have Debian "testing" running on SPARC as well,
> and I figured I'd go ahead and move the ia64 system to testing. When I did
> however, the system became unbootable. It uncompressed the kernel and
> initrd, and then just stopped. I figured I must have done something dumb, so
> I wiped the disk, redid the installation and made sure I had the firmware
> (required for radeon and tigon3 drivers apparently). It still failed to boot
> in the same way. It seems there may be a problem with the
> linux-kernel-3.1.0-mckinley package, because the kernel itself doesn't even
> output a single message before it dies. Anyone run into a similar issue? I
> wouldn't mind filing a bug, but I don't know how to get a backtrace this
> early in the boot process.
>
> Patrick