Bug#711135: unable to reproduce

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 02:01:37PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "dann" == dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> writes:
> 
> dann> I've got a zx6000 here, but I'm unable to reproduce. Are we
> dann> using the same versions of firmware/elilo? I'm using the serial
> dann> console.
> 
> I'm using the serial console via the HP iLO system.
> I collected today's snapshot fo jessie's netboot.tgz, unpacked it on
> our tftp server, and booted via DHCP:
> 
> EFI Boot Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]  Firmware ver 2.31 [4411]
> 
> Please select a boot option
> 
>     EFI Shell [Built-in]                                            
>     CDROm                                                           
>     DHCP Boot (Gigabit)                                             
>     Debian                                                          
>     Boot Option Maintenance Menu                                    
>     System Configuration Menu                                       
> 
> 
>     Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option
> Loading.: DHCP Boot (Gigabit)                                       
> Running LoadFile()
> 
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6E F3 7E AF 
> CLIENT IP: 10.13.0.38  MASK: 255.255.254.0  DHCP IP: 10.13.0.1
> GATEWAY IP: 10.13.0.1 
> 
> TSize.Running LoadFile()
> 
> Starting: DHCP Boot (Gigabit)
> ELILO v3.14 for EFI/IA-64
> ..
> Uncompressing Linux... done
> Loading file /gelato/debian-installer/ia64/initrd.gz...done
> Uncompressing Linux... done
> ***********************************************************
> * ROM Version : 02.31
> * ROM Date    : 03/11/2004
> * BMC Version :  01.52
> ***********************************************************

Can you attach your elilo.conf? I'm mostly trying to confirm you are
specifying "relocatable", but also curious about other settings.

fwiw, I am also able to boot the latest recent kernels:

ELILO boot: di
Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file \EFI\debian\boot\initrd.img-di...done
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.11-2-itanium (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.4 (Debian 4.6.4-4) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04)
[    0.000000] EFI v1.10 by HP: SALsystab=0x3fb38000 ACPI 2.0=0x3fb2e000 SMBIOS=0x3fb3a000 HCDP=0x3fb2c000
[    0.000000] booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1
[    0.000000] PCDP: v0 at 0x3fb2c000
[    0.000000] Explicit "console="; ignoring PCDP
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