Good morning, I beg your pardon if this problem has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything useful in the list archives.
We've been operating a Gigabyte R120-T35-00 (Mainboard model MT30-GS2-00) equipped with a Cavium ThunderX (CN8880) 32-core processor, for several years now. It was delivered with Debian preinstalled in 2018, so that must have been Stretch, also confirmed by my handwritten notes which list kernel 4.9.0. Upgrading to Debian Buster was successful, the current kernel is 4.19.0-25 aka 4.19.289-2. (It doesn't even properly identify the CPU, only gives a BogoMIPS value of 200.00.) Any attempt to boot a Bullseye (5.x) or Bookworm kernel (6.x) resulted in an early kernel panic. Is it possible to upgrade this machine to a more recent distribution, and if so, what are the tricks (kernel parameters etc.)? Any hint, pointer, suggestion is welcome. Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~
