Dieter Ries wrote:
Yes, afaik some drivers for this kind of hw (I use to test a d380 a brotherhood of this Kclass) are not yet 64bit ready, I would so advise you to use only 32bit kernel for the moment ;-)Hi,the 64bit kernel image. kernel starts and initializes everything, but then it writes "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize" "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize" "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize" "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize" "RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 12944k size 1024 blocksize"known problem, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2006/01/msg00088.htmlReplying to myself as I realize i might have read that a bit too quickly. This message isn't bogus per se, and is unrelated to the message i linked to (my bad, shouldn't post past 2AM :P). The dump i'm seeing on that picture: http://kankra.homelinux.org/thg/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_ itemId=421 might be the actual bug...as i said, these lines are not displayed when using the 32bit kernel, but the ramdisk error is the same. Somewhere in the net i read about 32bit compatibility of these hp machines, is it possible to use the 32bit kernel for the installation?
That said, this d380 was installed with a sarge install cd but needed to change manualy:
ramdisk_size=16384 to ramdisk_size=32768, may be could you try this tips (may be this pb is not yet fixed?)
the link you sent and the other links on that page show problems with the ramdisk, but not exactly the same problem as we have it here, that the driver for the ramdisk is loaded a thousand times, could nevertheless increasing the ramdisk size be a solution?
I trust it would certainly help. TIA for feed back, Joel