New Opteron Installation

Pär Ekstrand

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Dec 19, 2003, 2:50:16 PM12/19/03

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Hi,

I have bought an Opteron system with the following,

Tyan Thunder K8W Motherboard
2 x AMD Opteron 242
4 x 1Gb DIMM DDR 333MHz Reg ECC
2 x MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX PLUS-9 ATA/133 Disks
A Simple PCI Grafic Card

I have intstalled Sarge, with 2.4.22-1-386 kernel today.

I would like to try to install a 64 bit Kernel and a 32/64 chroot
environment.

Is this an updated way to do it ?
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
Should a I use the 2.6.0 kernel ?

And get things from
http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/

Best Regards
Pär Ekstrand
Department of Mechnics
KTH/Stockholm

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Goswin von Brederlow

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Dec 20, 2003, 7:20:10 AM12/20/03

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Pär Ekstrand <p...@mech.kth.se> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have bought an Opteron system with the following,
>
> Tyan Thunder K8W Motherboard
> 2 x AMD Opteron 242
> 4 x 1Gb DIMM DDR 333MHz Reg ECC
> 2 x MAXTOR DIAMONDMAX PLUS-9 ATA/133 Disks
> A Simple PCI Grafic Card
>
> I have intstalled Sarge, with 2.4.22-1-386 kernel today.
>
> I would like to try to install a 64 bit Kernel and a 32/64 chroot
> environment.
>
>
> Is this an updated way to do it ?
> https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
> Should a I use the 2.6.0 kernel ?
>
> And get things from
> http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Best Regards
> Pär Ekstrand
> Department of Mechnics
> KTH/Stockholm

Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.

MfG
Goswin

Matthew A. Nicholson

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Dec 20, 2003, 7:50:08 PM12/20/03

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On 20 Dec 2003 13:14:09 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
<bred...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>
> Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
> with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
>

Perhaps he should use 2.6.0?

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Goswin von Brederlow

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Dec 21, 2003, 8:10:13 AM12/21/03

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"Matthew A. Nicholson" <webm...@matt-land.com> writes:

> On 20 Dec 2003 13:14:09 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
> <bred...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
> > with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.
> >
> > MfG
> > Goswin
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps he should use 2.6.0?

Aparently not without a bunch of patches.

MfG
Goswin

Pär Ekstrand

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Dec 21, 2003, 10:00:06 AM12/21/03

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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

>"Matthew A. Nicholson" <webm...@matt-land.com> writes:
>
>
>
>>On 20 Dec 2003 13:14:09 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
>><bred...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
>>>with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.
>>>
>>>MfG
>>> Goswin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Perhaps he should use 2.6.0?
>>
>>
>
>Aparently not without a bunch of patches.
>
>MfG
> Goswin
>
>
>
>

Hi,

Ok, I'll think I will try 2.4.23 first :-)

Regards
Pär

Pearu Peterson

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Dec 27, 2003, 7:40:07 AM12/27/03

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On 21 Dec 2003, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> "Matthew A. Nicholson" <webm...@matt-land.com> writes:
>
> > On 20 Dec 2003 13:14:09 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
> > <bred...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes. But there is a bug in 2.6.0-test11 leading to FS corruption iirc
> > > with a patch for it. If you use 2.6 look out for that.
> >

> > Perhaps he should use 2.6.0?
>
> Aparently not without a bunch of patches.

What kind of patches exactly are needed for 2.6.0?
We have here dual Opteron running 64-bit 2.6.0 kernel
no crashes so far, but should we expect one?

Btw, I am trying to apply instructions in

https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id2883524

but

cdebootstrap -a amd64 sarge /chroot/sarge-amd64 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/

dies with a message

...
P: Configuring package sysvinit
P: Configuring package bash
P: Configuring package modutils
E: Couldn't install root!

Any ideas?

The system has been set up following the instructions in the same
document. The 64-bit kernel is built without modules support.

Thanks,
Pearu

Falk Hueffner

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Dec 27, 2003, 8:00:07 AM12/27/03

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Pearu Peterson <pe...@cens.ioc.ee> writes:

> What kind of patches exactly are needed for 2.6.0? We have here
> dual Opteron running 64-bit 2.6.0 kernel no crashes so far, but
> should we expect one?

Yes. You should apply the patch from
ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/v2.6/x86_64-2.6.0-1.bz2

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