Hi,
I am trying to install Centos 4.1 on IA64 machine. However, during loading of vmlinuz and initrd.img , i will get a kernel panic. Does anyone has this problem? I think it's due to initrd.img
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Yeo Chang Lim wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install Centos 4.1 on IA64 machine. However, during loading of vmlinuz and initrd.img , i will get a kernel panic. Does anyone has this problem? I think it's due to initrd.img
You need to give some more information
a) What kind of hardware (rx1600, rx2600 only tested by me, maintainer) b) where you boot from (CD i'd assume) c) What does it panic for. There must be something on the screen
Generally. The information 'i boot it on something something and it's panics' isn't enought.
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:55 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Yeo Chang Lim wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install Centos 4.1 on IA64 machine. However, during loading of vmlinuz and initrd.img , i will get a kernel panic. Does anyone has this problem? I think it's due to initrd.img
You need to give some more information
a) What kind of hardware (rx1600, rx2600 only tested by me, maintainer) b) where you boot from (CD i'd assume) c) What does it panic for. There must be something on the screen
Generally. The information 'i boot it on something something and it's panics' isn't enought.
Lim, also, make sure that the machine you're installing on is IA64 and not AMD (which is x86_64). One of our guys made that mistake last week, and wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why it was panicking.
David Johnston david@littlebald.com wrote:
Lim, also, make sure that the machine you're installing on is IA64 and not AMD (which is x86_64). One of our guys
made
that mistake last week, and wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why it was panicking.
Yep, I've now caught at least 2 people on other lists installing IA-64 on Dell's new EM64T systems. I guess the influx of Dell desktops with EM64T is causing a lot of confusion.
[ SIDE NOTE: I'm sure the fact that Debian doesn't list AMD64 as a port on its ports page (because it's not an official port release yet, just in test) is also causing people to assume IA64. ]
Here's the typical names of Linux ports as they match up to products:
Vendor Common Official ISA Products ------ ------ -------- -------- ----------------- AMD AMD64 x86-64 x86-64 Athlon/64/Opteron Intel EM64T IA-32e x86-64** Pentium-4/Xeon-MP Intel IA64 IA-64 IA-64 Itanium/2
AMD64 and EM64T are essentially the same, and support the AMD x86-64 (**NOTE: what Intel calls IA-32e, a slight subset of x86-64) instruction set architecture (ISA). In a nutshell, Linux/AMD64 aka Linux/x86-64 releases and packages (e.g., .x86_64.rpm) run on _commodity_ Athlon64/Opteron as well as newer Pentium 4/Xeon MP systems.
IA64 is _completely_different_ and only offers a subset of x86 compatibility in hardware (and Intel has even moved to using Digital's former FX!32 software because it's faster). IA-64 products are _Itanium_, and _never_ Pentium series.
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:40:12PM -0400, David Johnston wrote:
also, make sure that the machine you're installing on is IA64 and not AMD (which is x86_64).
(or an intel EMT64 machine, xeon 64-bit)
IA64 is Itanium.
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