FAQ

• Hardware support
  • Memory requirements
  • Workstations
  • Servers
  • Emulators
  • SATA Controllers
  • PCI/PCI-E Bridges with SSD/NVME drives
  • Booting from internal ATA controller (SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller)
  • Brackets for adding SATA drives (e.g. in rp3440 machines)
  • External Resources
• PA-RISC LINUX FAQ
  • What binaries will PA-RISC Linux support?
  • Will parisc-linux work on my system?
  • Where can I get an Install CD?
  • How can I switch the console to serial without a keyboard/monitor?
  • How do I change the palo/linux kernel boot parameters?
  • Can I use the latest kernel from Linus?
  • Can I run a 64-bit kernel on my machine?
  • How do I report a kernel problem to the PA-RISC Linux developers?
  • How do I get my system to boot from the network?
  • Can parisc boot from RAID1?
  • How can I check if the PDC (firmware) revision is the latest?
  • The system boots up on the STI Console but no “login:” prompt appears, what do I do?
  • The system boots up but I get Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. What do I do?
  • Can I use ISA cards in the EISA slots?
  • My ISA card is recognized but the IRQ is wrong or not accepted. What can I do?
  • How do I send Magic SysRq over lanconsole?
  • On my system ksoftirqd uses 70-100 percent of the CPU time. What’s wrong?
  • When trying to log in to the machine it times out with “Login timed out”
  • What are “unaligned access” messages about?
  • What about XFree and FX graphic cards?
  • Why do I get corrupted graphics with my Vis-EG/Graffiti/A4450A card?
  • Can I use a non-HP PCI graphic cards with PA-RISC Linux?
  • On my rp5470, rpXXXX machine, the Attention LED is flashing
  • How can I interact with the Remote Management processors like GSP or BMC?
  • Why do I get “ENTRY_INIT failed” booting the Install CD?
• HOW TO REPORT A PARISC-LINUX KERNEL PROBLEM
  • Introduction
  • The Basics
  • HPMC
  • “Hung” kernels
  • More advanced bug reports
• Mailing lists
  • PA-RISC Linux Kernel mailing list
  • PA-RISC Debian mailing list
  • PA-RISC Gentoo mailing list
• Graphics cards with PA-RISC Linux
  • HP graphics cards
• Building the kernel
  • Prerequisites For Building Kernels
  • How To Build a Kernel
• Installation of PA-RISC Linux
  • Installation of Debian unstable via debian-ports repository
  • How to disable systemd and switch to sysvinit
  • Upgrade the kernel to latest stable kernel
  • Technical background of the install images
• Debian Buildpackages
  • Debian Buildservers
  • How to use debian schroot
  • How buildds get the lists
  • How to upload a new debian package for debian developers
  • How to create backport
  • How to upload a debian package to debian unreleased
  • Some other info
  • Missing GPG key
  • Build chroot requirements
  • Tips to manually build debian Linux kernel
  • Prevent regeneration of mandb
  • Prevent cronjob errors on buildds from apt-cacher-ng
  • How to manually build debian packages
  • Large file support for debian packages
• How to create Debian unstable iso images
  • What you need to know
  • Basic steps
• HP part numbers