Re: Debian installer

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 09/04/2018 08:28 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > Cool, will give it a try soon.
>
> I finally managed to test - now already - 4.17.0-3-mckinley on all of my 
> Itanium machines. Works great on most of them:
>
> ```
> root@rx2660:~# dmesg | grep hp
> [    0.000000] booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1
> [    0.040000] DMI: hp server rx2660                   , BIOS 04.04 
>                                                        07/15/2008
> root@rx2660:~# uname -a
> Linux rx2660 4.17.0-3-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18) ia64 
> GNU/Linux
>
> root@rx4640:~# dmesg | grep hp
> [    0.000000] booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1
> [    0.112000] DMI: hp server rx4640                   , BIOS 02.13 
>                                                        03/22/2004
> root@rx4640:~# uname -a
> Linux rx4640 4.17.0-3-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18) ia64 
> GNU/Linux
>
> root@rx2620:~# dmesg | grep hp
> [    0.000000] booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1
> [    0.060000] DMI: hp server rx2620                   , BIOS 04.29 
>                                                        11/30/2007
> root@rx2620:~# uname -a
> Linux rx2620 4.17.0-3-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1 (2018-08-18) ia64 
> GNU/Linux
> ```
>
> All machines were netbooted with ELILO v3.14 from Wheezy.

Forgot one thing:

I had to blacklist the "radeon" module (with e.g. 
`modprobe.blacklist=radeon` in kernel command line) for all the above 
machines, otherwise the startup hangs after the "radeon" module was loaded.

I assume this is the same issue as on the rp34x0 systems (nearly 
identical to rx2620 hardware-wise IIC) although the VGA and additional 
serial port connectors aren't blocked physically on the rx2620. See [1] 
for details about the change for the rp3440.

[1]: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bcf3f1752a622f1372d3252d0fea8855d89812e7

Cheers,
Frank