From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:08:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Recommended compiler for compiling kernels test10 and upper? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:01:56PM -0800, Jim Wilson wrote: > >I'm trying to build the 2.4.0-test10 kernel with the ia64 patch. We > >recently upgaded the hardware on one of our boxes to B1 stepping, and > >now it won't boot. I'm hoping the newer kernel will work better. > > The Red Hat August Linux OS release won't boot on a B1. This was due to a > misapplied kernel patch, and was fixed immediately after the problem was > discovered, which was unfortunately a couple of days after the OS release. > > There is a kernel update available from Red Hat that fixes this, but it is > a little tricky to install the kernel update if the machine doesn't boot. > Since you presumably still have A step machines, you should be able to install > the kernel update on an Ax machine, and then move a hard disk over to the B1 > machine, and then it should boot. > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/ia64/updates/RPMS > That is what happened to me when my machine was upgraded to B1. I wound up putting a working kernel on the RedHat ia64 bootable LS120 floppy and booted it with root=.... It assumes you have RedHat already installed on your machine befor upgrade. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)