Re: Fedora on Itanium

Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:04:59 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.ia64.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Emeric Maschino ([email protected]) said: 
> First, is there a specific list for Fedora on Itanium? Else, does
> anybody try to net install Fedora from scratch using the boot.iso image
> provided on
> download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ia64/images
> from April 26th?
> 
> I'm trying to install on a hp workstation i2000 (a.k.a. BigSur) but the
> modules (most importantly e100.o and qla1280.o) failed to load (crash
> with a lot of debug info I don't know how to redirect in a file).
> 
> Any hints?

AFAIK, the ia64 kernel is compiled for Itanium2, and is generally
unhappy on Itanium 1 processors. Check the source RPM for the config,
if nothing else.

Bill