RE: Debian installer

[Pedro Miguel Teixeira <pmsjt@texair.net>]

Thanks Jason!

I am now updated on the ELILO front.


Starting: Debian
ELILO v3.14 for EFI/IA-64
..
Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.img...done
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-4-mckinley (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.78-1


Now onto trying new kernels… that’ll be interesting.

_____
Pedro

From: Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 08:51
To: Pedro Miguel Teixeira <pmsjt@texair.net>
Cc: frank.scheiner@web.de; John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>; debian-ia64 <debian-ia64@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian installer

Hi Pedro,

I'm using 3.14-2 (from wheezy).

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/elilo/elilo_3.14-2_ia64.deb

Jason


On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:38 AM Pedro Miguel Teixeira <mailto:pmsjt@texair.net> wrote:
 
Hi Jason.
 
Can you please share which ELILO you are using? This is the one I have on my Montvale machine:
 
        ELILO v3.12 for EFI/IA-64
 
But I afraid it might be too old for current kernels.

BTW, this is what I currently have on mine:

       Linux b777 3.2.0-4-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 3.2.78-1 ia64 GNU/Linux
 
_____
Pedro
 
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From: Jason Duerstock <mailto:jason.duerstock@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 11:43:24 AM
To: mailto:frank.scheiner@web.de
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz; debian-ia64
Subject: Re: Debian installer 
 
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/8b3963b0ebe7f3fee96bc541363bfe0a95f8999a

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905461

I'm currently using elilo, but grub is rumored to work.  Now that the kernel works again, I will try to test grub myself at some point soon.

Jason


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:33 PM Frank Scheiner <mailto:mailto:frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
On 08/15/2018 02:07 AM, Jason Duerstock wrote:
> FYI, as of today's build, the kernel works again:
> 
> ii  linux-image-4.17.0-2-mckinley       4.17.14-1                      
>   ia64         Linux 4.17 for Itanium 2+
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux netsvcs1 4.17.0-2-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 4.17.14-1 (2018-08-13) 
> ia64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Jason

Cool, will give it a try soon.

Any idea what was changed to make it work? Kernel config maybe?

And say, what machine and what boot loader and boot method (e.g. 
netboot, boot from disk, etc.) did you use?

Cheers,
Frank