[ale] Anyone installed Debian on Itanium?

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Jan 7 09:50:00 EST 2004


I downloaded the Rocks Cluster DVD for IA-64, and it installed cleanly. 

FreeBSD 5.1's boot loader complained about not being able to load the
kernel.

Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition installed cleanly, though it is a
bit sluggish.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll go join that mailing list.

Jonathan Glass

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 09:08, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded and burned Debian IA64 CDs (3.0r2).  Disk 1 is bootable, as
> > recognized by the EFI, and ELILO appears.  Once it goes to the initrd line
> > (the second line to appear after hitting enter), the machine reboots.
> 
> Take it to the ia64 ports list @ Debian, and someone there can hopefully 
> help you.
> 
> There were at one time updated install CDs with a newer kernel kicking 
> around. I can't find those now, though -- they were on one of the cracked 
> servers.
> 
> later,
> chris
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