I have been having the most frustrating time with the installation of
RHL 4.0 on my new alpha workstation (Microway Screamer, PC164).
It came with 3.0.3 and kernel 2.0.23, but it seems to have some bugs,
among other things I cannot get "dip" to talk to the modem properly.
For the record, I have an AHA2940UW scsi controller, 4GB fast/wide
Seagate disk, Plextor 8X scsi cdrom, Exabyte 8205XL tape drive,
128MB ram, 2MB cache.
I decided to install 4.0 from the CD, and I get different kinds of
problems:
1) If I tell milo to boot from the CD, with the command
boot -t iso9660 scd0:kernels/pc164.gz root=/dev/scd0
the initial boot goes fine, but then I get the complaint that the
root device at some address cannot be accessed:
"VFS: Cannot open root device 0b:00
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0b:00:
Is there something wrong with the above specification of the root path?
Do I need more options or a different way of specifying the root device?
2) If I try to boot from floppies, with the command
boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
using the cp164.img and ramdisk.img images on the boot and ramdisk
floppies respectively, the boot proceeds ok and puts me in the
installation program. I reply that I have a local scsi cdrom, with
Adaptec 2940 controller. It then goes to the autoprobe option, and
it fails with the complaint: "I cannot run /bin/insmod: no such file
or directory", and the whole thing fails miserably. I noticed that
"insmod" on the CD is not in the /bin directory, but in the /sbin
directory! Another thing I don't understand is why the installation
program does not realize that the scsi driver is already operational
(milo know about it, and it works properly).
Can anybody please tell me what I am supposed to do? All I want is to
upgrade from 3.0.3 to 4.0, and get a properly working machine. Is
there a way to fix the install images? Why can I not boot from the
CD directly?
Thanks for your help,
Daniel
--Dr. Daniel Gruner dgruner@tikva.chem.utoronto.ca Dept. of Chemistry phone: (416)-978-8689 University of Toronto fax: (416)-978-5325
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