Aidan Williams (aidan-axp-list@swerve.comms.unsw.edu.au)
22 Apr 1999 08:23:32 -0000
Greetings,
.. so near, and yet so far. It would appear that I should be able to
install redhat 5.2 on an alphaserver 2100.
I can happily boot the kernel from a floppy, however when it comes
time to plug in the ramdisk, various errors spew out about fat16
filesystem formats etc. The last time I saw that, I had a bad floppy.
So, I put this down to floppy problems -- although not media because
I've checked that a couple of times. The floppy drive is reported to
be 2.88mb device, and it is. However, the ramdisk that I am using is
1.44mb, created from the standard redhat ramdisk.img for alphas.
I have tried passing boot parameters to tell the floppy driver that it
is 1.44mb along the lines of:
boot -file vmlinux.gz -flags "floppy=0,4,cmos root=dev/fd0 loadramdisk=1"
This didn't result in any improvement (although the floppy driver
encouragingly said that it thought it drive was 1.44mb).
I don't have another alpha/linux system lying around to make an NFS
root filesystem on. I also tried the updated ramdisk.img.
Anyone successfully done an install like this before?
Can you do this via tftp or something?
regards
aidan
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