Subject: Re: Alpha 1000 redhat installation problem
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 03:51:52 PDT
The only thing that stands out at me is:
loadramdisk=1 should be load_ramdisk=1
At least I've never seen it used w/o the underscore before.
--rdp
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Goonetilleke, Anthony wrote:
> I am new to this list and the world of Alphas so please excuse my
> ignorance..
>
> I am trying to install Redhat 6 on an Alpha 1000 4/200
> I have upgraded the firmware to the latest version V5.3-89
> and I have made the two disks from the image directory kernel.img and
> ramdisk.img.
> When I issue the following command at the prompt
>
> >>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 loadramdisk=1"
>
> It gets a fair way through and then I get the error
>
> halted CPU 0
> halt code =6
> double error halt
> PC = fffffc000031bc4c
>
>
> I also tried creating a Milo disk and then booting the kernel disk but
> without any luck.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
> Anthony
>
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