Attempted installation on serial console fails with: No ttyS device at MMIO 0xff5e0000 for console This was using network boot images downloaded from download.fedora.redhat.com/.../development/ia64/os/images on 2006-07-06. The problem is that CONFIG_PNPACPI=y needs to be specified in the kernel config. This is a new requirement in 2.6.17, since the acpi components were all added to PNP, so 8250_pnp takes over hooking up the serial ports. As a result, CONFIG_PNPACPI=y is needed to make the serial console available. See also the report at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ia64-list/2006-July/msg00001.html diff -r 0d1ea668a7c6 devel/configs/config-ia64-generic --- a/devel/configs/config-ia64-generic Tue Jul 11 12:15:19 2006 -0400 +++ b/devel/configs/config-ia64-generic Tue Jul 11 12:17:19 2006 -0400 @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SGI=m CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SGI=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m -# CONFIG_PNPACPI is not set +CONFIG_PNPACPI=y # Broken in 2.6.10-bk3 for ia64 (No DMA_MODE_WRITE) # CONFIG_MMC_WBSD is not set
This looks sane. Dave, when you get a chance please commit this -- headless installs are broken :( P.