https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:NeddySeagoon/HOWTO_Update_Old_Gentoo
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/*
I stated with SLES 11 SP4 downloaded from https://mirror.rqsall.com/misc/ia64linux/SLES11. This install is straigtfoward, just boot DVD 1 with console=ttySG0,38400n8
I used a stage 3 from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218040919/https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20221130T031653Z/stage3-ia64-openrc-20221130T031653Z.tar.xz
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:IA64/Installation/Disks
Follow Gentoo's docs for setting up the disks partition. I did 1GB /boot/efi, 8GB swap, 490GB /. Extract tar into the new disk.
I cloned the gentoo git and checked out a random commit from 2022 with this command. I did this on my main computer since sles didn't have git.
git clone https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo.git
git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 --first-parent --before="2022-12-19" master)
Then I then copied this repo in /var/db/repos/gentoo Now, we should be ready to chroot.
mount --types proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount --bind /run /mnt/gentoo/run
mount --make-slave /mnt/gentoo/run
cp --dereference /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}"
Once in chroot, we need to setup portage.
cd /etc/portage
ln -s ../../var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/ia64/17.0 make.profile
More following Gentoo's instructions.
configure timezone
ln -sF /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
COnfigure locales
nano /etc/locale.gen
Uncomment en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen
eselect locale list
eselect locale set 2
env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}"
start kernel work
cd /usr/src
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.14.79.tar.xz
tar -xf linux-3.14.79.tar.xz
ln -s linux-3.14.79 linux
cd linux
emerge --ask sys-apps/pciutils
lspci > ~/lspci.txt
cd /usr/src/linux
make localmodconfig
I just held enter and accepted all defaults
make menuconfig
Enable lots of stuff. Make sure you enable SN2 support in Processor type and features. Im sorry but this isnt complete. Make sure you find all the SN2 and Altix devices. There are some in character and scsi.
Processor type and features->System Type = SN2
Device Drivers --->
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) --->
<*> Silicon Graphics IOC4 IDE support
Device Drivers --->
Character devices --->
<*> SGI IOC4 serial port support
Device Drivers --->
Character devices --->
Serial driver --->
Lots of SGI stuff and altix stuff. check it all
Device Drivers --->
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers (libata) --->
<*> AHCI SATA support
<*> ATA BMDMA support
Device Drivers --->
Network device support --->
Ethernet driver support --->
Broadcom devices --->
<*> Broadcom Tigon3 support
Networking support --->
Networking options --->
<*> Packet socket
[*] Packet socket: mmapped IO
File systems --->
Native Language Support --->
<*> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
Device Drivers
--->Character Devices
-------><*>Hardware Random Number Generator
-----------><*>INTEL HW RNG
Some others that im thinking of:
XFS, NFS, FAT32
There is one patch needed to compile:
in arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_dma.c
Change
void sn_dma_flush(u64 addr)
to:
void sn_dma_flush(unsigned long addr)
make -j$(nproc)
make modules_install
cp vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinuz
Set your hostname in /etc/hostname
We need to spawn getty on bootup. Edit /etc/inittab
Add:
c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 ttySG0 linux
elilo setup
emerge --ask sys-boot/elilo
edit /etc/elilo.conf
This is mine:
boot=/dev/sdb1
delay=50
timeout=50
default=Gentoo
append="console=ttySG0,38400n8"
relocatable
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Gentoo
root=/dev/sdb3
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=Gentoo.old
root=/dev/sdb3
read-only
elilo -v --format --debug --efiboot
Now, you should have a working system.
At this point, you will struggle with missing sources trying to use emerge since portage is old.