Hello,
> ALPHA Clone PC 600MHz
> * 600MHz
> * 256 Megs of Ram (TWO 128meg DIMM's)
> * 4.3 Gig Hard Drive (seagate ST34501W)
> * 3 1/2 Floppy drive
> * 32 meg PCI Video card (OXYGEN 402)
> * 32X IDE CD-ROM
> * SCSI PCI CARD
> * NIC CARD 10/100
Looks like a nice box, Exactly what kind of SCSI card is it?
Do you happen to know which chipset that graphics card of yours
has? If it's one of the more exotic ones it's probably not
supported by X windows.
> System ALPHA PL 164LX, ALPHA BIOS VERSION 5.62-1A, DIGITAL ALPHA 21164
> PROCESSOR
You may want to consider switching your console to SRM.
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.9/alphapc164lx/
Though be sure that you have a supported SCSI card, otherwise
you wont be able to boot off it.
> So I follow the instructions in the Suse book and set up everything. I
> create the boot disk and boot up with the floppy and the CD in. The first
> set of error messages said: unknown file system on on device sr0. And the
> second one was: failed to load the kernel. So I formatted the hard drive
> with the built in formatting app and changed the OS options path from:
> boot scd0:/etc/vm_full.gz root=/dev/scd0
> to
> boot hda:/etc/vm_full.gz root=/dev/hda
> After I did that I got these error messages:
> Warning: unable to open an initial terminal. And
> Kernel Panic: no init found, try passing init= option to kernel
Is this Suse 7.0 or 6.4? 7.0 has initrd that it has to load. If I
remember
correctly the suse 6.4 floppy ramdisk had to be dd'd a certain way.
Which version are you trying to install?
Peter
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