Itanium2 Installs?

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: Itanium2 Installs?

Curious if anyone has tried installing Gentoo on an Itanium2 system (IA64 not IA32 emulation)?

Last time I tried on a work machine, the livecd failed. I had to get it up fast so I had to resort to SuSE.

Itanium2 includes 900MHz and faster Itanium CPUs up to Itanium2 9100-series (dual core.) I recall having mostly hardware driver issues, which isn't way too unexpected.

Any recent installs? I'm trying to get one for my own to play with someday...
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alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

not recent. i did a installation on a itanium1 about a year ago. i had some trouble, the installation was not really easy. but i managed to finish it.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

Was the Gentoo LiveCD working properly for that Merced box? Or what was the biggest issue with it on that Itanium1? Which box was it (like, HP i2000?)

I'd like to get a HP ZX6000 someday... even as used, they're more spendy than I want to pay for at this point...

[ Update: looks like I may be getting a personal 2U machine soon. Time to see how well Gentoo works on it

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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject:

ahh..so it should work. Not sure why my livecd is not working, suspecting a bad burn (somehow, md5sum appears to check out OK).

On another note, did anyone get ia32 emulation working? I figure it should work just like the em64t<->ia32 binary compatibility system? I tried chrooting into a ia32 stage4, and a lot of the binaries actually worked... 'du' seemed to fail though, but I didn't try everything else... Kind of funny, uname -a in the chroot will report i686.

Also the libata drivers do not appear to work with ICH4 on the Dell PowerEdge 3250... I don't know why I bothered trying, just for fun

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Yury-Kozlov · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

Everything working fine on hp rx1620 if you using Gentoo LiveCD install-ia64-minimal-2007.0.iso Other cases I had problems too. For example when you trying to boot up from install-ia64-minimal-2008.0.iso the process of booting stop on

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ZeuZ_NG · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be EMT64 instead of IA64? IA is the compatibility layer as far as I know...
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armanox · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 36 Location: Baltimore, MD

No it would not. EM64T was Intel's implementation of AMD64, IA-64 came a while before that. Thus, they are two completely different architectures, with a common ancestor (the i686 arch (Pentium Pro - Pentium 3)). Also, since 2006, Itanium based processors do not support IA-32 on the hardware level (software emulated).

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject:

Ahh... well semi-necro/"[Solved]" --

I got my Itanium2 box a while ago, and the minimum-install CD works. The full LiveCD just has bugs (last time I checked it - it doesn't boot on my poweredge 3250). I don't think my ia64 box has a chance in heck of booting a normal ia32 CD, but I did get it to run linux-ia32 binaries without modification using hardware emulation -- it chroots to an ia32 install tree just fine after getting that kernel fix with threads.

I've yet to try the (free, as in beer) software emulation... Supposedly it's faster than the built-in hardware emulator due to being able to dynamically translate blocks of code -- something that hardware emulation can't do.
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