will SUSE do what Red Hat can't?

sam_at_pharo.com
Date: 07/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:41:24 GMT

Having fits with Red Hat 4.0, does anyone know if SUSE will work
better?
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Has anyone been successful at loading current version of Red Hat on
Compaq 590/64 Itanium system? I bought one to "explore" new Linux
release, but have been unable to load OS. After properly part-ing the
disk and then loading disk 1, the system uncompresses into ram disk
and begins installation. There is now apparent way to stop screen
scrolling past, and virtual term keys do not work.

As near as I can see, the system decides that there is something wrong
with some aspect of the scsi channel, and then goes into the normal
screen based (as opposed to graphics based) install mode.

The screen does not clear, however before starting the install, and
after asking for the country, the keyboard type, the load type (CD,
NFS, FTP or HTTP), it says that I don't have a CD in the drive
(obviously I do), and it will not progress. I can go back to the
"which country" screen, but no further. Interestingly, the system
forces me to the dreaded "paper clip method" of opening the CD drive
at this point. Even after doing this, and then reclosing the drive to
initialize it agin, there is no change.

The Compaq log from the EFI system is not logging any problems with
the scsi channel, or with the drive. Since it takes about 5 minutes
to reboot each time, this is becoming excrutiating.

Has anyone loaded 4.0, or 3.0 on this Itanium 1 system, or any Itanium
1 system?
 
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