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I have an HP RX1620 Integrity (Itanium-based) system that was
purchased with OpenVMS pre-installed. That configuration seems to be
working fine. I also purchased a second hard drive with the system in
order to support a RHEL Linux.

I'm now trying to install RHEL ES V4 on that second hard drive (I've
swapped out the OpenVMS disk with my Linux disk). My RX1620 does NOT
have the "Management Processor Card" which provides mouse, keyboard
and VGA ports. Instead, I'm trying to perform the install using the
built-in serial port.

Booting from the RHEL installation DVD (or CD) seems to work just fine
until the boot process gets to the point where it apparently wants to
switch to the ramdisk-based root file system. The final two messages
that show up on my terminal are:

RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

I've tried passing various combinations of the following boot options
to the kernel, but nothing seems to get me past that last VFS message:

text
console
console=ttys0,9600n8
serial
serial=ttys0,9600n8
nofb
noshell
nousb

The "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: Installation Guide for x86, Itanium™,
AMD64, and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel® EM64T)"
manual, section 4.3.3 "Additional Boot Options" suggests the boot
parameters:

linux text console=<device>

to perform a text-mode installation on serial mode. I've tried that,
with no luck.

Any suggestions on what's happening?

TIA!

Eric Chevalier

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