Brian Rerecich (rerecich@segosf.hlo.dec.com)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:58:25 -0400
Here what I did to install Redhat on my lx164. I made 3 floppies, one with
milo, one with the boot kernel, and one with ramdisk. You'll need to make
these again. Now, use the AlphaBIOS boot from the first floppy (milo +
linload). Then once you get the milo prompt, switch to the second disk
(boot kernel) and type 'boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fda0 load_ramdisk=1"
and then switch disks to the ramdisk one when it asks for it.....
Thats all....enjoy.
-Brian
Matt C Wagner wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> remember that corrupt ramdisk image that shipped with RH 5.2?? well, i'm
> having quite a tangle with it again.
>
> i downloaded the new "errata update" ramdisk.img from redhat. dd'ed it to
> a disk (dd if=ramdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k) and am currently try to
> boot my alpha to do the reinstall.
>
> i kept my first partition on /dev/sda with linload.exe and milo. so i boot
> milo from the ARC, and i'm trying to figure out how to boot up on the CD
> with this new ramdisk image. but for the life of me i cannot remember how
> to do it!!
>
> i've tried 'boot hda:/kernels/sx164.gz load_ramdisk=1', 'boot
> hda:/kernels/sx164.gz root=/dev/fd0'.... but neither work.
>
> i've also searched through the mailling list archives... and i think that
> if anyone has written instructions on how to do this it must be in
> October-1998, cause that's the only one that i get a "Document contains no
> data" on when i try to access it. :(
>
> so can anyone refresh my memory? it's been so long, i must have
> overwritten that part of my brain or something! :)
>
> thanks
>
> matt
>
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