Try Changing the statement "root=/dev/dka0 expert text" ... dka0 is your first SCSI
hard drive.. it should be whatever your cdrom is. On my machine it is "dka200".
Alec Aakesson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been given a Compaq Alpha xp1000 (CYPRESS 82C693) to install the
> Red Hat Alpha 6.1 on. I have read the instructions which came with the CD
> [from Red Hat], and I am uable to get the box to run through the
> instalation process. If any one could give me an idea of what I might be
> doing wrong I would realy appreaciate it. Sorry if this is not the forum
> for such a question....
>
> When I try to boot from the floppy [I got the image from the CD]:
>
> boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/dka0 expert text"
> I get the following message:
>
> resetting all I/O buses
> (boot dva0.0.0.0.0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags root=/dev/dk0 expert text)
> block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.0
> bootstrap code read in
> base = 1ac000 image_start = 0, image_bytes = 15000
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page table 3fff0000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to primary cpu
> jump to bootstrap code
> aboot: linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.5
> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.54
> aboot: no disklable found
> aboot: booted_dev='dva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0', guessing boot_device='fd0'
> aboot: loading compressed vmlinux.gz...
> aboot: ok, now starting the kernel...
> Linux version 2.2.13-0.9BOOT (root@jetson.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version
> eqcs-2. (here it went off the screen, and I lost it...)
>
> halt code = 5
> HALT instruction executed
> PC = fffffc0000310040
> boot failure
> >>>
>
> I don't know if I needed a "disklable", but there were no ref's to needing
> one in the litrature
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Alec
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Alexander S. Aakesson aakesson@isi.edu
>
> University of Southern California 703.812.3724
> Information Sciences Institute.
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Massimo Boninsegni wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am wondering whether anyone has experienced something similar to what
> > I am seeing in installing 6.1 so far. I have tried both the FTP as well as
> > the HD install, and both fail at the same point, right after
> > ``Reading package description''; at that point the script should normally
> > show a list of the various packages that can be installed, for one to pick
> > and choose.
> > I never get to that point, though: if I do the FTP install the process
> > simply hangs, whereas if I do the HD install I get the following error
> > message:
> >
> >
> > "Exception ocurred:
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 225, in ?
> > intf.run(todo,test=test)
> > File
> > "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py",
> > line 1000, in run rc = apply(step[1](),step[2])
> > File
> > "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py",
> > line 222, in __call__
> > parts = todo.upgradeFindRoot()
> > File
> > "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py",
> > line 1130, in
> > upgradeFindRoot
> > isys.umount('/mnt/sysimage')
> > File
> > "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/isys.py", line 8, in umount
> > return _isys.umount(what)
> > system error: (22, 'invalid argument')"
> >
> > (yes, ``ocurred'' is spelled just like that in the pop-up window :-)
> > and then the usual message ``Installation exited abnormally'' is received.
> > I have no idea what to do with the above, but, the interesting thing is that
> > this problem has been reported by a number of Intel RH6.1 users
> > (see http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-4.html#ss4.15).
> > As far as I can see, however, no alpha user has encountered it, other than me.
> > Or, is there anyone out there who feels my pain ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Massimo
> > --
> > Massimo Boninsegni
> > Department of Physics
> > San Diego State University
> > http://rainbow.sdsu.edu/~massimob
> >
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