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Ph0eniX Guru


Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 502 Location: New York, U.S.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: No handbook for IA64? |
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I'm trying to install Gentoo 2006.0 on a IA64 system - HP Integity RX2600 to be exact. For the most part I used the x86 procedure but I don't know what to do after emerging elilo. I guess grub won't work on a system with EFI?
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Ma3oxuct Guru


Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 523
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the link. I'm edited /etc/elilo.conf but when I try to run:
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Logical sector size is zero.
elilo: Filesystem on /dev/sda1 is corrupt, please fix that and rerun elilo.
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I created ext2 fs on /dev/sda1 - is that correct or should it be a different file system for the EFI?
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Ph0eniX Guru


Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 502 Location: New York, U.S.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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I was able to make elilo attempt to boot after running:
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elilo -b /dev/sda1 --format
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but the system hangs after loading initramfs. Should I try to run it without the initramfs? |
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Ma3oxuct Guru


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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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I don't know too much about eLilo or EFI, but should not you be doing:
This would make the bootloader install onto your master boot record rather than a partition. |
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mark_alec Bodhisattva


Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 6066 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures. |
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Ma3oxuct wrote: | I don't know too much about eLilo or EFI, but should not you be doing:
This would make the bootloader install onto your master boot record rather than a partition. |
Elilo actually copies the kernel and the initramfs into the EFI partition. I tried starting from scratch and laying out the filesystems again but this time using "ee" as the type for the first partition on the drive but when I do that, none of my other partitions want to mount anymore - the /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 files are removed and only /dev/sda is there. As soon as I delete the EFI partition everything is back to normal. From what I'm reading the EFI/ee partition is nothing but a DOS fs so I set that as the type and I'm going to try it again. |
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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mark_alec wrote: | Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures. |
I was wondering where my post went  |
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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I finished installing stuff and I'm trying to boot the system. elilo seems to have a bug where it doesn't put a slash in front of the file kernel/initrd filename in the path while parsing elilo.conf. Since the EFI has an editor, I was able to edit the file manually and get it to attempt booting but it says loading initramfs...done and then just hangs. Any ideas?
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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1/2 yeay - it almost works. I removed the read-only option from the elilo.conf that's on the DOS/EFI partition and the system boots now but it's ignoring the "root" parameter for some reason and I have to specify /dev/sdb3 as the root each time - kind of a PITA but this is definitely improvement. I was starting to get sick of booting it off the CD. Here's my latest elilo.conf
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delay=2
timeout=2
default=gentoo
image=/EFI/gentoo/kernel-genkernel-ia64-2.6.17-gentoo-r3
label=gentoo
initrd=/EFI/gentoo/initramfs-genkernel-ia64-2.6.17-gentoo-r3
root=/dev/sdb3
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Ph0eniX Guru


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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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After two days of torture I have kde-3.5.4 up and running. Thanks for all your help! |
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SpanKY Retired Dev


Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 321 Location: Somerville, MA
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RedJane n00b


Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 12
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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SpanKY wrote: | we've finally stopped being lazy and finished up the IA64 handbook
be good to get some feedback ! |
Tomorrow, or next monday, I will start with an install on a HP Integity RX2620 (IA64 system).
I also had some questions about the install procedure, but you finished the book just in time... hehe, THX !!
I will use the book and you can expect some feedback. |
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