Subject: Re: Alpha Server 800 5/333 help
Jamesvi@asu.edu
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 10:55:10 AKST
I have a DPWS433a/au. I could never get mine to boot from the CD. However, I
did get mine to boot from the SRM using the aboot floppies provided. IF you
are installing an equivalent to RH 6.0 then you need the updated ramdisk.img
floppy from ftp.rehat.com. IF it is equivalent to RH 5.2 then the images are
fine. The 6.0 command is just'> boot dva0' IF it is 5.2 based then you have
to enter '> boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"'
I hope that this helps.
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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Carl Lafferty wrote:
> I have recently bought Northern Linux from Harddata.com
> and am having problems getting the installation to take off on my
> Alpha server 800.
>
> I created a generic boot/root disk and am able to get
> the boot string
>
> boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl root=/dev/fd0
>
> to boot somewhat.. I get the prompt to put in the ram disk,
> and then the machine starts reading it and then sends me
> back to the SRM prompt ('>>>') with a CPU halted
> Error code 5 message.
>
> I have not been able to get this to boot from the CD at all.
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Harddata suggested that maybe my SCSI is not terminated
> properly or something but it appears to work in windows NT.
> I am removing the 2gig drive that NT resides on when I want to
> install linux but it is still not wanting to work with the drive in..
>
> I also read somewhere (about 2 or 3 months ago) that the
> tape drive installed could be a problem so I have unplugged power to
> that... and same results..
>
> ANY help is appreciated even if you just say "I feel for ya dude":)
>
>
> --
> Carl Lafferty| carl@netins.net
> The UQWK guy | carl@fclib.org | <http://www.fclib.org/>http://www.fclib.org/
> Make sure to look for The Babylon Project: Crusade
> for a short time on TNT.
>
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