Jay.Estabrook@digital.com
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:23 -0500
>>> "Ing. Ramon Solano Barajas" said:
>
> Our AplhaServer 2100 4/200 is now running under Linux!!
> All's fine, except the boot. I've tryied to make the hard disk bootable
> with "swriteboot /dev/sda /boot/bootlx -f3", but the answer is
> "error: bootcode overlaps with partition #1. If you really want this, use
> -f1". I left an unassigned partition of about 10 MB at the begining of the
> disk.
You MUST use BSD-style disklabel (partition table) for SRM console; this
measn giving the "b" option to fdisk.
And it's better to simply leave the first cylinder or two empty and not part
of the first partition; ie start partition "a" at cylinder 2 or 3, and go on
from there. Thenb it shouldn't complain about overlapping.
> BTW, the server has two processors. I guess that the kernel has support
> for SMP, is this true? Is there a way know/test this feature?, I'm
> thinking in some kind of "system info" under Linux or maybe a benchmark
> program.
Grab one of the SMP kernels available on gatekeeper.dec.com:
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Kernels/generic-smp-223.gz
or
/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Images/generic-smp-223.img
Good luck.
--Jay++
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