Hi all, just a quick success report:
Yesterday I did a Debian installation on a rx6600 using the latest installation image available ATM ([1]) and that went through w/o any real problems using only the defaults in "normal" installation mode. Congratulations, Adrian! :-) [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-10-13/debian-10.0.0-ia64-NETINST-1.iso I was using the system console provided by the built-in iLO MP via telnet for installation and I only experienced two issues: 1. The installation UI messages are sometimes "overwritten" by "unaligned access" messages, but a new UI screen or "window" makes them disappear. Only at the last step where a user is asked for confirmation to finish the installation, this understandingly can't happen until a user makes a specific decision. I assume changing to another `screen` window and changing back could also help if the UI messages are unreadable because of this. 2. First login via system console after installation and reboot worked w/o a problem, but logging out and back in I didn't get a prompt after the MOTD messages. Only after hitting Ctrl+c the prompt appears. This was reproducible. No such issue when using SSH, so maybe this is an effect of using the iLO MP system console via telnet. Both are no problem at all. **** Just for the record, my rx6600 has the following firmware revisions: ``` FIRMWARE INFORMATION *System Firmware A Revision: 4.11 [4842] PAL_A: 7.31/1.08 PAL_B: 1.14 EFI Spec: 2.00 EFI Intel Drop: 14.62 EFI Build: 7.14 SAL Spec: 3.20 SAL_A: 2.00 SAL_B: 4.11 POSSE: 0.24 ACPI: 7.00 SMBIOS: 2.3.2a System Firmware B Revision: 4.11 [4842] BMC Revision: 5.24 IPMI: 1.00 Management Processor Revision: F.02.23 Updatable EFI Drivers: Floating-Point Software Assistance Handler: 00000118 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver: 00090404 SCSI Bus Driver: 00000031 SCSI Disk Driver: 00000020 SCSI Tape Driver: 00000030 Usb Ohci Driver: 00000040 USB Bus Driver: 00000020 USB Bot Mass Storage Driver: 00000020 Generic USB Mass Storage Driver: 00000020 * Indicates active system firmware image ``` ...has four 9120N Montvales installed with HyperThreading enabled and uses the zx2 chipset. The installation went onto a SAS HDD. Cheers, Frank