Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> I dug an old Alpha box (Digital/Compaq/HP/Whatever Personal Workstation
> 500a) out of storage today, threw a couple drives and some memory in, and
> grabbed the latest Sarge netinst CD.
>
> Unfourtanatly, the installer hangs on detecting hardware, specifically the
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:20:13PM -0600, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> I dug an old Alpha box (Digital/Compaq/HP/Whatever Personal Workstation
> 500a) out of storage today, threw a couple drives and some memory in, and
> grabbed the latest Sarge netinst CD.
>
> Unfourtanatly, the installer hang
I dug an old Alpha box (Digital/Compaq/HP/Whatever Personal Workstation
500a) out of storage today, threw a couple drives and some memory in, and
grabbed the latest Sarge netinst CD.
Unfourtanatly, the installer hangs on detecting hardware, specifically the
onboard Qlogic SCSI card. I don't need t
Chad Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I just went through the install for potato on an AlphaServer 400 4/166
> system, and everything went fine, but when I reboot it does not take me into
> the OS, I just get the SRM prompt again.
>
> I try booting from the floppy again with
>
> >>> boot dva0 -
I just went through the install for potato on an AlphaServer 400 4/166
system, and everything went fine, but when I reboot it does not take me into
the OS, I just get the SRM prompt again.
I try booting from the floppy again with
>>> boot dva0 -file linux -flag "root=/dev/sda2"
and it loads the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need:
> >
> > boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
> >
> > You need to make the root.bin floppy also.
>
> I believe you are correct on this. You will need both floppies, and the
> MILO command here looks
> > Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console
> > Kernel Panic: cannot open initial console /dev/console
> >
> > And then she sinks.
> >
> > The boot command I have been using is as follows:
> > MILO> boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 panic=30
>
> This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need:
This is the rescue floppy? IIRC, you need:
boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
You need to make the root.bin floppy also.
The Alpha install docs are absolutely abysmal. I sent a patch for a small
amount of
the HTML about a couple of months ago, which seems to have
Hello-
Thanks first of all for not being daunted by the subject.
I am installing Debian on an Alphastation 255 and am
having problems getting Debian to boot from MILO.
The error messages of interest are as follows:
Warning: Unable to open initial console /dev/console
Kernel Panic: cannot open in
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