reassign 572787 linux-2.6 2.6.32-9 thanks On Saturday 06 March 2010, Marc Haber wrote: > a hp ProLiant DL385 G6 does not boot the daily installer image in > 64bit mode. The box is a Dual Six-Core Opteron with 80 Gig of RAM. > > Trying a 64 bit expert install, vga=normal is needed to get output at > all. The following results have been obtained with vga=normal > console=ttyS0 and all permutations of "edd=off" and "nosmp" on the > command line. All results have been the same. > > Vmlinuz and initrd are loaded just fine, the line of dots after initrd > load ends with "ready." This can be seen both on the system console > and on the serial console. > > Afterwards, the serial console screen is blanked (and stays blank); > the system console moves its cursor up left without clearing the > screen. I then see "Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... Done" with > the dotline written by the initrd load being back after the "Done." > Then the next line is overwritten with "Booting the kernel.y." with > the "y." being the remainder of the "ready." > > With this display, the system stops dead in its tracks with a blinking > red error LED: > > Installing 32bit Debian works just fine.
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