> I happen to posses an old "Big Sur" machine manufactured by Intel, based > around two Itanium (Merced) CPU's and a 460GX chipset. The machine is > labeled as an "enginnering sample" (label: > http://ishells.net/spy/itanium/DSC00873.jpg), and looks identical to the > HP i2000 workstation (picture: http://ishells.net/spy/itanium/DSC00880.jpg). I haven't booted kernels on BigSur/Merced based systems for a very long time (3 years? perhaps more) ... and untested code very quickly turns into non-working code :-( > Do you reckon it is safe to update? What else would you suggest me to do > about my machine to succeed with Linux installation? You'd probably be a lot happier if you re-cycled this machine and found a newer one (at least McKinley based). If you really want to continue you might try to track down some install disks for a version of Linux that is the same age as the machine (e.g. RedHat AS 2.1). At least these are known to work on this h/w. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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