Installing 2.6.6 on hp zx6000

Installing 2.6.6 on hp zx6000

[Younggyun Koh]

hi,

i'm trying to run linux kernel 2.6.6 on hp itanium2 machine - zx6000,
which is running Redhat advanced server 2.1AW...
and i got some questions..

1. has anyone succeeded with the same condition?

2. nfs-utils currently installed is version 0.3.3. the minimum requirement
for 2.6.6 is 1.0.5, but i was told from the system management guy that
installing 1.0.5 might cause serious problems... is it true?

3. i got the link error when i build the kernel

bash-2.05$ make CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-3.3.3/usr/local/bin/
warning: your linker cannot handle cross-segment segment-relative
relocations.
         please upgrade to a newer version (it is safe to use this linker,
but
         the kernel will be bigger than strictly necessary).
make[1]: `arch/ia64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/asm-ia64/offsets.h
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
/opt/gcc-3.3.3/usr/local/bin/ld: final link failed: File truncated
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

any idea?

thank you very much!

			-Younggyun Koh (young@cc.gatech.edu)

Re: Installing 2.6.6 on hp zx6000

[Christian Kujau]

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Younggyun Koh schrieb:
| 1. has anyone succeeded with the same condition?

no, as i don't own such a machine.

| 2. nfs-utils currently installed is version 0.3.3. the minimum requirement
| for 2.6.6 is 1.0.5, but i was told from the system management guy that
| installing 1.0.5 might cause serious problems... is it true?

just ask the "system management guy" exactly *what* seems to be the
problem with nfs-utils 1.0.5. i have 1.0.6 running with no problems.

| 3. i got the link error when i build the kernel
|
| bash-2.05$ make CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/gcc-3.3.3/usr/local/bin/
| warning: your linker cannot handle cross-segment segment-relative
| relocations.
|          please upgrade to a newer version (it is safe to use this linker,
| but
|          the kernel will be bigger than strictly necessary).

well, that's a pretty good error message, don't you think? a quick grep
with this error on your local kernel-sources will show that the message
is from: arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags.
upgrading binutils (and other tools too) to the recommended versions as
shown in Documentation/Changes would be a first step. maybe system
management guy can help with that ;-)

Christian.
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