[Fedora-ia64-list] Elilo.conf with 1 install of Fedora on Itanium2

Doug Chapman doug.chapman at hp.com
Tue Jan 8 21:05:32 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 20:45 +0000, Thierry TROUILLET wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>  
> I think you're a Man who is very passionated by computers and Linux! 
>  
> In the Itanium2 powered by Supermicro and Intel, I included a great
> device: A DVD-RAM (Dl_rw ...), i'll burn the .iso and will try to boot
> with it!

This certainly sounds like the best plan.  Also, I am not all that
familiar with the Supermicro boxes but I would suggest going to Intel's
web site and see if they have updated firmware.  I know on some of our
HP ia64 systems the original firmware needs to be updated in order to
run recent versions of linux.

>  
> Hummm, I saw some issues in other distrib of Linux (Suse) and  full
> notes are provided about command line of elilo.efi...
>  
> Up to now, I succeeded to run-up the Itanium2 with a time-limit
> version of windows 2003 :/ ; My daughter have a few preferences for
> Linux, I can't disapoint her! You understand me?

Your daughter sounds very smart :)


- Doug





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