Hi Peter --
More or less what I was thinking. I just looked at my one and only
spare firewall box (multia) and it looks like I built all three of
them over the local net. It's just been so long ago.....
OTOH, I can try doing a 6.2 load and see what happens. IIRC, I had to do
two floppies and have a net image ready on another box. Don't think it
was BOOTP per se, but it was a net load (prolly nfs). Brad, have you
another box you could nfs export the contents of the cd from?
Just a couple thoughts...
-ls-
Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org> wrote:
> You wouldnt happen to have another machine on the network that could act
> as a BOOTP server? Reason being I could make you a BOOTP kernel that has
> the RAMDISK attached so it loads the ramdisk immediatly after the kernel
> finishes loading. What version of RH are you trying to install?
>
> Peter
>
> brad lynham wrote:
> >
> > i should have mentioned that, i initially was trying to boot from the cd
> > with the good old srm console, and i was running into the same problem (as
> > well as others). i then found a guide that told me about the milo floppy
> > from the arc console, boot disk, ram disk, blah blah blah. still the same
> > problem. this machine is running the last firmware released, and it has
> > both srm and arc consoles.
> >
> > ive basically tried everything from head first plunging into the install
> > to following the official installation guide. im definately not getting
> > something.
> >
> > .brad
> >
> > Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> > > > everything boots fine, but the install program dies with the error
> > > > "unable to load second stage ramdisk". ive tried the install via
> > > > cdrom (many many times), local image, http, and ftp from 4 different
> > > > sources.
> > >
> > > Try rather booting from a floppy with a ramdisk on the second floppy.
> > > Images are on a distribution CD. Quite possible that your loader
> > > together with firmware fails flat on a loading ramdisk image.
> > > You have an SRM console or ARC?
> > >
> > > Michal
> >
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