[05:50] <fabbione> lamont-away: how do i netboot ia64?
[05:50] <fabbione> if possible at all
[05:51] <lamont-away> trivial, I'm told
[05:51] <fabbione> hmm ok..
[05:51] <lamont-away> not that I've ever done it, mind you...
[05:51] <fabbione> ehehe
[05:51] <fabbione> how do i break into the EFI stuff?
[05:51] <lamont-away> arrow keys
[05:51] <fabbione> the only thing i saw at boot is "press space to continue"
[05:51] <fabbione> ok
[05:52] <lamont-away> after hitting space
[05:52] <lamont-away> it gives you a boot menu prompt - one of the things on that machine currently is 'ubuntu'
[05:52] <lamont-away> etc,
[05:52] <lamont-away> at that point, you start using arrow keys, and you become the controlling manager of your destiny
[05:53] <fabbione> cranky
[05:53] <fabbione> it doesn
[05:53] <lamont-away> host foo.baz.com { filename "/elilo.efi";hardware ethernet ??:??:??...; fixed-address foo.baz.com; }
[05:53] <lamont-away> in dhcpd.conf
[05:53] <fabbione> it doesn't sense space or arrows from the serial
[05:53] <lamont-away> elilo.efi: MS Windows PE executable
[05:54] <lamont-away> in /tftpboot
[05:54] <lamont-away> sure it does - they generate escape sequences..
[05:54] <lamont-away> or something like that.
[05:54] <fabbione> it didn't
[05:54] <lamont-away> it's not some lightweight dumb serial interface, oh no.  iz smart.
[05:55] <lamont-away> hrm...
[05:55] <fabbione> it scans for USB keyboars
[05:55] <fabbione> rants that there are none
[05:55] <lamont-away> yeah - give it one.
[05:55] <fabbione> ok
[05:55] <fabbione> so i use the USB keybord and serial output
[05:55] <lamont-away> I'd reboot my zx2000, but it's busy trying to freshen its mirror...
[05:55] <fabbione> fancy!
[05:56] <fabbione> no problem
[05:56] <fabbione> don't worry
[05:56] <lamont-away> oh, it's better than that - just wait.. :0)
[05:56] <fabbione> ahahhaha
[05:56] <lamont-away> checking for XT... configure: error: Package requirements (sm x11 xproto kbproto) were not met:
[05:59] <fabbione> ok
[05:59] <fabbione> keyboard plugged
[05:59] <fabbione> machine rebootinh
[06:06] <fabbione> minicom sucks
[06:06] <fabbione> it didn't sense the serial
[06:19] <fabbione> lamont-away: yeps.. it
[06:19] <fabbione> lamont-away: yeps.. it's working.. or at least it looks like :)
[06:20] <lamont-away> cool
[06:21] <lamont-away> hey - does this mean you got things rearranged before your deadline?
[06:21] <fabbione> oh yeah
[06:21] <fabbione> i finished to rearrange yesterday
[06:21] <lamont-away> the fact that you're alive and all that, eh?
[06:21] <fabbione> i still have stuff without power :)
[06:21] <lamont-away> ew
[06:21] <fabbione> i did run out of power and net cords
[06:21] <fabbione> http://www.fabbione.net/new_office.jpg
[06:22] <fabbione> it's a big image
[06:22] <fabbione> it clearly shows that i need a rack :)
[06:25] <fabbione> btw.. nfs on hppa is no go
[06:25] <lamont-away> but that's a wonderful table the J5K makes, eh?
[06:25] <fabbione> oh yeah
[06:25] <fabbione> there was an amazing stain of coffee on it :)
[06:25] <fabbione> original american HP coffee :)
[06:25] <lamont-away> what's next to the sparc?
[06:25] <lamont-away> yep.  coffee goes places... like .dk
[06:25] <fabbione> it's the old 441
[06:26] <lamont-away> ah, ok
[06:26] <fabbione> just a normal p4
[06:26] <fabbione> nothing fancy
[06:26] <fabbione> the sparc is there only to balance the table :)
[06:26] <fabbione> it's the broken one ;)
[06:26] <lamont-away> lol
[06:26] <fabbione> the working one is right below the cisco switch
[06:26] <fabbione> you can barely see it in the pic
[06:26] <fabbione> the dell on the bottom is my server
[06:26] <fabbione> and the little thing on top of the ia64 is a thin client
[06:27] <fabbione> got it at UBZ from the LTSP guys
[06:27] <fabbione> i still have 3 monitors not in use from the 441
[06:28] <fabbione> i was plannning to hook them up on the hppa and ia64
[06:28] <fabbione> but i did run out of space
[06:28] <fabbione> + the other details like power cords :)
[06:28] <lamont-away> sounds like you need to kick your wife out or something, to make room, huh?
[06:28] <fabbione> notice the cartoon boxes on the side?
[06:28] <fabbione> the entire wall is full of them
[06:29] <lamont-away> is that what those are
[06:29] <fabbione> we still need to unpack them since we did move in the house
[06:29] <fabbione> nah there is all sort of junk in them
[06:29] <fabbione> but we don't have space in other rooms where to store them atm
[06:30] <fabbione> so the plan is to finish the house, unpack them
[06:31] <fabbione> rearrange the office in a more usable and nice way :)
[06:35] <fabbione> MEHHH
[06:35] <lamont-away> monday I need to go get some PC2700 ram instead of the PC133 sticks I got earlier.  sigh.
[06:36] <fabbione> it didn't go very well
[06:36] <fabbione> FATAL: Error inserting sym53c8xxscsi_mod: value -6917529019003397936 out of IMMe
[06:36] <fabbione> it did install the -mkinley kernel
[06:39] <fabbione> either the initrd is missing a module..
[06:39] <fabbione> or the kernel sucks
[06:42] <lamont-away> 2.6.15?
[06:42] <lamont-away> when I did the install before I shipped it, I just used a breezy CD
[06:43] <fabbione> i am doing breezy net install
[06:43] <fabbione> probably it did install just the standard -itanium kernel
[06:43] <fabbione> i can do that easily
[06:59] <fabbione> yup
[06:59] <fabbione> it's either a broken initrd or the mckinley kernel is totally broken
[07:00] <fabbione> i will have to dig into it
[07:10] <fabbione> Linux golion 2.6.15-8-itanium-smp #1 SMP Tue Dec 13 05:44:26 UTC 2005 ia64 GNU/Linux
[07:10] <fabbione> i would say it works :)
[07:20] <lamont-away> fabbione: SCORE
[07:20] <lamont-away> it may also just be elilo not auto-running on kernel install - although I haven't seen that, iirc
[07:21] <fabbione> lamont-away: no, it
[07:21] <fabbione> lamont-away: no, it's either the initrd missing a module or the kernel
[07:21] <fabbione> elilo did run fine
[07:21] <fabbione> good night
[07:22] <lamont-away> thanks