Re: rx2660 + debian

On 09.04.22 20:53, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 09.04.22 20:43, Anton Borisov wrote:
>> None of the kernels from 5.x tree worked for me. Everytime I hit that
>> memcpy BUG. I've booted off from
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-16/
>> <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-16/> - it
>> was perfect in terms of initial boot and launching the install shell.
>> But then it stuck at "detect and mount CD" (step 3 of launcher).
>
> IIRC the kernel on the installer ISOs is a generic one. Maybe that makes
> a difference.

Just installed the generic one (`-itanium` instead of `-mckinley`) and
did sum benchmarking and didn't notice any issues. So the kernel type
seems to make no difference - at least not for my rx2620.

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On 09.04.22 21:52, Anton Borisov wrote:
 > It is 9040 (from installer's shell):
 >
 > arch       : IA-64
 > family     : 32
 > model      : 0
 > model name : Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9040
 > revision   : 7
 > archrev    : 0
 > features   : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops
 > cpu number : 0
 > cpu regs   : 4
 > cpu MHz    : 1594.666
 > itc MHz    : 399.164976
 > BogoMIPS   : 3182.59
 > siblings   : 4
 > physical id: 0
 > core id    : 0
 > thread id  : 0

Ok, so a Montecito, too.

 >
 >
 >     UPDATE: Just noticed, you seem to use an old snapshot. Maybe
better use
 >     a current one.
 >
 >
 > Frank, I tried almost every snapshop from 2021. The only usable one is
 > from debian 10th branch (that's 2019-07-16 :).
 >
 > The fresh one, i.e. current, dated as 2022-03-28, generates BUG and
 > kernel stack error.

Ok, I understand now, thanks for clarification. Strange situation. I'll
have a look at my rx2660s as soon as time and temperature allows.

If installing from the 2019-07-16 snapshot doesn't work through, you
could try to netboot your rx2660 from the netboot installer (current
version on [1], contains a tarball with the files for netbooting the
installer), but I couldn't find a version from the snapshot date above
on snapshot.debian.org. So no luck with that. :-/

[1]:
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ia64/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer-images_20210731_ia64.tar.gz

Cheers,
Frank