Re: AlphaServer GS140 (8400)
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 05:22 pm, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> > > I have told that it's upgraded GS140 (from AlphaServer
> > > 8400). It has 8CPU (6/525 if my memory serves me. 2/board)
> > > and 12GB memory (4GB/board).
> >
> > This is a "Wildfire" machine, and Debian claims to support
> > it in Woody:
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch-hardware-req.
> >en.html
> >
> > I myself would be using Woody to bootstrap LinuxFromScratch
> > on there, but I'm just crazy like that.
> >
> > Also, from HP:
> >
> > http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/gs160/
> >
> > These things are supposed to support "Linux Developers Kit",
> > whatever that means.
>
> No it's not. This is AlphaServer 8400 (upgraded to GS140) and
> you're talking about GS160, which is AFAIK different machine.
Ah sorry, my bad. I apparently misread it. :/
As for the GS140/8400...Linux support is apparently not so great.
:( To the best of my knowledge, the problem is supporting the
PCI buses in that thing. If a generic kernel doesn't work, it's
liable to require some kernel hacking to fix this.
Perhaps we could get the docs from HP? This is an ancient
machine, but you never know.
The show-stopper isn't bootstrapping from SRM to the Linux kernel
so much as it is getting the Linux kernel to actually deal with
the machine. So that leaves testing via bootfloppy as an
option, so that's a little more convenient. Just start with a
kernel compiled for SMP-generic and work from there.
Somehow, I NEVER heard of alilo, even booting Woody on my Alpha?
Maybe I missed it. I've been using aboot.
--
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does
it still cost four figures to fix?"
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