Hi BJ, I read a successful report of an Altix 4700 booting with a Debian "squeeze" kernel and running that. Maybe try that -- you can always upgrade to "wheezy" once it is installed, but having a stable kernel to work off of would be the best start. You'll probably need to do a custom kernel compile anyways -- stock kernels rarely support > 64 CPUs.
Patrick On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Lougee, BJ A Civ USAF AFMC 559 SMXS/MXDECC <[email protected]> wrote: > My work has just acquired some SGI Altix 4700s recently. > We don't have the money for RHEL or SLES so I choose Debian. > However, I am running into issues getting past Uncompressing Linux phase > of the booting process. > For the elilo command I have used: > > fs0:\> elilo > fs0:\> elilo -r > > I can get to the install screen fine with either of them. > At install screen I have typed these params as well. > > CONSOLE=ttySG0 > console=ttySG0 > > With all the above with various combinations it always fails with this > message: > > Uncompressing Linux... done > Loading file \initrd.gz... done > POD entered via MCA, using Cac mode > 0 000: POD SysCt Cac> > > I have entered some command to find out why I failed out to the PROM > Debugger with these command with the resulting output: > > 0 000: POD SysCt Cac>error > > Index time stamp Type component subcomponent > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > 0 0x000000db6b6ea207 MD_HW 051.21^1#0 Non-existent > Memory Address Error > 1 0x000000e01c1bba06 PI_HW 051.21^1#0 RRB > Time-out Error > 2 0x000000e01c3b1900 PROC_MCA 051.21^1#0a Bus > Check > > 0 000: POD SysCt Cac>why > > Reason: MCA > Processor State: > Iip : 0x00000018026e8830 iipa : 0x00000018026e8820 > Ipsr : 0x0000100001006018 > little endian > alignment check enabled > lower fp (f2..f31) written > interrupt collection enabled > external interrupts enabled > data translation disabled > debug breakup fault enabled > register stack translation disabled > current privilege level: 0 > IA64 instruction set > instruction address translation disabled > restart instruction slot: 0 > register bank: 1 > isr: 0x0000000000000000 > excepting instruction slot: 0 > excepting deferral: 0 > > <Snip ... lots of Hex dump with memory stack stuff...> > > Any pointers/help would be helpful. > > Thank you, > > BJ Lougee > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/fd026d83efe78744acac16b7bc0c292907a4b...@vfokmlao02.enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil > >
