[Fwd: Mikasa/slink trouble]
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Can someone help with this? I would but I'm stuck with the glibc-2.1
conversion and a nasty problem while recompiling apt....
C
The Rev W Spaced Lee wrote:
>
> OK, I've got an AlphaServer 1000 4/200, which should be a
> mikasa kernel. I downloaded the most recent bootdisk image (990305)
> from lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr, and dd'd it to a floppy. After a "boot dva0"
> at the SRM console, MILO comes up normally. I enter "boot fd0:linux
> root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1", and MILO goes to
> work. The first disk I used got to "jumping to bootstrap code" and
> then hung for more than a half hour. I pressed return and got a MILO
> prompt. Figuring I might have had a bad disk, I used a new disk,
> dd'ing the image over. This time the boot process hung on "Transaction
> size=512", eventually kicking back into MILO.
> At this point, thinking it may be MILO, I downloaded the
> mikasa-p image, and used the aboot option, with various boot commands
> from the SRM console. When i put "boot dva0 -file linux -flags
> root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1", aboot got all the way
> to "ok, loading the kernel", then froze. In all other permutations of
> the boot commands, I got an "unzip error" and an aboot prompt.
>
> Am I missing something really obvious here? Does anybody have
> any ideas?
> Thanks
> Bill
>
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