From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:10:04 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] New Red Hat Linux Development Release available Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The third development release of Red Hat Linux for IA-64 is now available. The main new feature of this release is kickstart support in the installer. You can get it at: ftp://ftp.rehdat.com/pub/redhat/ia64/ ISO images are available. The README is attached below. Bill -- Red Hat Linux Development Release for IA-64 ------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: 1. Notes 2. How to install 3. Changes from the previous release 4. Compatibility Notes 5. Known Bugs 1. Notes Welcome to the third Red Hat Linux Development Release for IA-64. This is an early snapshot of Red Hat Linux for the IA-64. Not everything may be working fully yet; remember, if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. There is a mailing list to discuss the IA-64 release. To subscribe, send mail to ia64-list-request@redhat.com with subscribe in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. 2. How to install Upgrades from previous Red Hat Linux IA-64 Development Releases are *not* supported. To do a CD-ROM install, simply insert the CD-ROM; at the EFI prompt, switch to the CD-ROM filesystem, and run 'eli'. (If you have filesystems with eli installed on them, you may need to unmap the aliases (by running 'map -d fs0', for example) for it to run ELI off the CD. To do an NFS install, take the boot image (images/boot.img on theCD), and dd/cat it onto an LS-120 disk. Boot the resulting disk in EFI; you should not need to pass parameters. If you do, to start the install you need to pass: root=/dev/hda2 ro text Use the install like a normal Red Hat Linux install. Choose 'Custom Install', and then partition your disks. Be sure to make a small DOS primary partition (i.e., a partition between 1-4), to be used for eli. This partition needs to be mounted on /boot/efi. For reboot, remove the CD-ROM (and LS-120, if you used it.) You should then be able to boot from your boot partition by simply running 'eli'. 3. General caveats/changes from previous releases: If you have a Lion (and possibly BigSurs, too), you need to go into the Qlogic BIOS setup and make sure that ' Enable > 4GB support ' is enabled, even if you don't have 4GB of memory. Otherwise, the kernel won't be able to talk to anything on the Qlogic controller (the failure method will be it complaining about being unable to read the partitions on the SCSI drives.) Kickstart should work OK; please let us know if it doesn't. Anything in anaconda that tries to access the floppy will be looking on the first partition of a partitioned LS-120. (i.e., /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, etc.).In other words, putting ks.cfg on the boot disk should work fine, and you should be able to write tracebacks to the boot disk. You should be able to specify a hostname now on CD-ROM installs without crashing the installer. ELI now supports adding of command line arguments to images, for example: eli linux ks=floppy will simply append 'ks=floppy' to whatever arguments you have for the image labeled 'linux'. Basically, just like LILO. However, you still cannot pass the 'initrd' parameter on the command line in ELI; it needs to be in the config file. You can now install in foreign languages if you so desire. Testing X configuration in the install still does not work. Also, there are still occasional reports of 'everything' installs dying with a sig11 after the last package, but it's not 100% reproducible. 4. Compatibility Notes Programs from the previous (May or June) Red Hat Linux IA-64 Development Releases should run on this release; compatibility is not guaranteed, though. However, programs built on both this and previous release will not run on future releases. Similarly, programs built on future releases will not run on this release.