Axp-Software Archive
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & AlphaServer DS10

Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & AlphaServer DS10
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Thu Dec 23 09:27:07 1999


On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Raffaele Cicchese wrote:

>
> Thanks to Rich Payne and to all that helped me to install RH6.0!!!
> Now the alpha is running the pinguin!!!
> Anyway there's a problem :-( I cannot boot from the hard disk and need
> to use the boot floppy with the command:
>
> boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/sda1"
>
> I also recompiled the kernel with the latest 2.2.13 an replaced the two
> files /boot/vmlinux and /boot/System.map, but it doesn't work.
> Any clues?

You need to put the vmlinux.gz file onto the floppy. After you compile the
new kernel the file will be in /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot (if you're
kernel source isn't in /usr/src/linux then substitute the correct
directory).

As for the harddisk, is this SCSI ot IDE. It's a DS10 so I'm assuming IDE?
Did you partition the disk with BSD disklabes?
Have you used swriteboot to install aboot?

If not, take a look at this:
http://talisman.alphalinux.org/faq/srm-3.html#ss3.3

--rdp

 
>
> RAFFAELE CICCHESE Phone: +39-0521-905278
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>

Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org



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