From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. J. Lu" Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:51:39 +0000 Subject: Re: Does 2.6.17.11 kernel work on HP zx6000? Message-Id: <20060912165139.GA8313@lucon.org> List-Id: References: <20060908232224.GA27087@lucon.org> In-Reply-To: <20060908232224.GA27087@lucon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:10:02AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 08 September 2006 17:22, H. J. Lu wrote: > > Does 2.6.17.11 kernel work on HP zx6000? After uncompressing > > kernel and loading initrd, kernel stops. > > 2.6.17.11 has an ia64 build problem. After I fixed that with > this patch: > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0608/18861.html I used a similar patch. > > I built a defconfig kernel and booted it on an rx2600 (basically > the same box as a zx6000). The log is below. > > My guess is that there's something wrong with your console. Maybe > the kernel thinks you have a VGA console and you're looking at > serial, or vice versa. EFI can use multiple console devices, but > the kernel generally only uses one. > That could be my problem. 2.6.9 works fine. How can I get it to work? I can hook up a serial console. What is the serial setting? H.J.