Hi, here's a not-so-successful IA64 install report: I tried the March 10 IA64 business card ISO on an HP zx6000 workstation (I also tried various netinst and business card builds from the previous week earlier).
I ran into a couple of problems and ended up giving up without being able to install a bootable Debian system. The first problem was that the kernel used by the installer did not include the mptscsih or mptbase modules, which are required for the zx6000's SCSI controller. I was able to work around this by grabbing a kernel-image .deb, configuring networking on the zx6000 and then copying the module binaries from the .deb onto the zx6000. Once I got the mptscsih module loaded, the installer was able to find the hard drive. If I chose automatic partitioning, it seemed as though the installer did not create an appropriate FAT16 EFI partition. I created an EFI partition by hand, and I was able to install the base system. However, I was not able to get the installer to install elilo -- the installer simply went away for a while and then came back to the main menu. No error messages were printed, but elilo was not installed. Finally, at least with some of the earlier images, my USB keyboard did not work once the installer started up. Unfortunately the zx6000 does not have a PS/2 keyboard connector so I was only able to do anything through the serial console. I'm not sure whether this was still the case with the March 10 image, since I just stuck to serial for that image. - Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
