IA64PortStatus

This page summarizes the state and goals of the IA64 Ubuntu port. Though not yet supported, the IA64 flavour of Hoary and Breezy are available from the archive, and is in fairly decent shape. Specifically:

Target platforms

All Itanium platforms should be supported, although no effort is being made to support Itanium 1. A test Hoary install CD is [http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/daily/hoary/20050712.1/ here], and the current test Breezy install CD image is [http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/daily/current/ here].

== Hoary status==

The only known issues with this install CD are:

• During the install, it will drop to the menu at elilo-installer. Get to a shell, edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/elilo-installer.postinst, find db_fget, and make "seen" the second argument instead of the first (by swapping the arguments). Get back to the menu and redo the elilo-installer step. (This is fixed in breezy.)
• server install requires manual specification of the preseed file (details to follow).
• Firefox has issues.

State of the port

These are the current issues/problems I'm facing.

Packages status

(not considering universe/multiverse)

Outstanding issues

(not considering universe/multiverse)

Kernel status

No known issues other than:

• 2.6.12 kernels < 2.6.12-6.7 are known to not boot (MCA trying to print the first message from the kernel). This is fixed in 2.6.12-6.7 and later.

Installer status

Expect changes soon in the boot options on the installer CD, as we make them more rational.

As far as I know, all HP Itanium 2 machines are supported. Itanium 1 may fail during X startup (missing Nvidia proprietary driver), but Itanium 1 is not on our target list.

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