From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Egan Ford" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:29:15 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Problem booting SuSE SLES 8 beta (kernel 2.4.19) on Itanium 2 box 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 What kind of box is it? I have been installing and running SuSE8 RC1 and RC2 on Intel's Tiger4 and BigSur boxes with no problems. I've installed from CD and network. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-ia64-admin@linuxia64.org > [mailto:linux-ia64-admin@linuxia64.org] On Behalf Of Grant Grundler > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:14 PM > To: Jose Rodriguez Ruibal > Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org > Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem booting SuSE SLES 8 beta > (kernel 2.4.19) on Itanium 2 box > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:42:40PM +0100, Jose Rodriguez Ruibal wrote: > > Both, from the EFI shell and also from Linux. > > ok. Which Linux works? The SLES 8 installer? RH AS 2.1? > Self-built Kernel? > > BTW, I've corrected the subject line since SLES 8 kernel for Itanium 2 > systems is based on 2.4.19, not 2.4.9. > > Original problem report said: > | I'm testing SuSE SLES 8 on a Itanium 2 box, and the > installation goes > | more or less OK. The problem is that when I try to boot > once installed, > | the boot process stops while loading the mptable module. > > What made you think "mptable" was the problem when the last output > is "loading mptbase"? > > Could you determine if the kernel binaries used by the SLES 8 > installer > are the same as used on the reboot? > It sounds like they are not and the problem is the ramdisk. > > thanks, > grant > > ps. try using a different mail handler - the archives aren't able to > track this thread. See > > https://lists.linuxia64.org/archives//linux-ia64/2003-January/ thread.html _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64