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* Needs the non-free bnx2 firmware on a flash drive for the install to work, (could try to add it to the install initrd) | * Needs the non-free bnx2 firmware on a flash drive for the install to work, (could try to add it to the install initrd) | ||
* Something something IBM Calgary IOMMU something something leads to DMA errors and the LSI MegaRaid raid card dosn't work, booting with "iommu=soft" makes it work but may not be ideal. search https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for iommu | * Something something IBM Calgary IOMMU something something leads to DMA errors and the LSI MegaRaid raid card dosn't work, booting with "iommu=soft" makes it work but may not be ideal. search https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt for iommu | ||
* The incantation seems to be: iommu=soft,calgary megaraid_sas.msix_disable=1 | |||
== Upgrading the bios == | |||
Do a diskless boot, the go do Debian and then "Jessie amd64 Diskless for BORGs", log in as root (password 'root', this diskless setup is for testing only!), then: | |||
cd ibm-bios/z/ | |||
./lflash64 | |||
This is an upgrade to bios version 1.16 | |||
== link dump == | == link dump == | ||
