>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.
This configuration looks good.
>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?
This will never work.
>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.
This happens due to not having a milo and kernel that supports Adaptec 2940.
If you need it e-mail me and we'll make arrangements to get it to you. At
present unless you have another system running Alpha Linux your dead in the
water.
Let me know.
Cheers,
Steve
+1-603-421-1800 http://www.dcginc.com
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