[Whitebox-ia64] Dell 7150???

[Robert Kidd]

On Jul 23, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Cris Rhea wrote:

> I pulled down liberation-binary-ia64-1.iso from one of the mirror sites
> and tried to boot it on my Dell 7150 Itanic (4 x CPU, 4GB mem, PERC 
> 3/QC).
>
> Linux booted, but crashed when it tried to install the module for the 
> PERC
> 3/QC. Machine works fine on RH7.2 (but I'd like to get something newer
> to run on this beast).
>
> I had similar experiences with TaoLinux.
>
> Is there some magic I'm missing?? If I remove the disk controller, the 
> system
> will boot to the install screen, but then complain about not having 
> any hard
> disks.
>
> Since the Dell 7150 was the cornerstone of commercial Itanics, I'm 
> having
> a hard time believing two modern IA64 dists have never been 
> tested/debugged
> on one of these beasts.
>
> The list archives have nothing... I'd appreciate any ideas...

I believe that machine is the same as the HP rx4610.  We have a couple 
4610s, but they have qla1280 scsi cards, not raid cards.  Do you get 
any messages before the crash?

Robert