[Fedora-ia64-list] Fedora on Dell PowerEdge...no serial ports and some error messages.

[Kevin Martin]

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Prarit,

 Not sure where to get the upstream kernel source.  I had grabbed the boot.iso from ftp.nluug.nl...can I find them there or would I
get them elsewhere?

thanks.

Kevin

Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Kevin Martin wrote:
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>> Installed Fedora dev for IA64 on my PowerEdge itanium server (boot.iso
>> and s'ware from 04/04/2006).  I got some strange errors
>> during the install ("Kernel unaligned access..." which you will see in
>> the dmesg output I send at the end of this email) and I can't
>> get the serial port to work (Com2 at 0x2f8, irq 3 according to the
>> BIOS).  I've got Serial port redirection working and I can get
>> bootup output by setting "console=uart,io,0x2f8" in the start line but
>> I can never get a prompt and setserial shows no settings for
>> the ttyS1 device (or any of the ttyS? devices).  Theres a statement
>> about "No ttyS devices at 0x2f8" in the dmesg output.  Thoughts
>> on next steps is greatly appreciated.
>>
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> Kevin,
> 
> The unaligned access errors are non-fatal errors -- they indicate a
> performance issue rather than a serious kernel issue.  I've opened up
> several BZs against applications which generate these errors.
> 
> In your case it looks like you're getting the insmod unaligned access
> error which occurs because the kernel name is not aligned to a 64bit
> boundary ...
> 
> Does the upstream kernel work if you setserial, etc.?
> 
> You should be able to build and boot that by grabbing the upstream
> sources, taking the FC5 kernel source .config and building with that ...
> 
> P.
> 
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