Woody on AplhaDEc 500a - what boot parameters to use?

[John Larsen <larsenj@wt.net>]

I am installing woody on a Alpha personal workstation 500a. It used to 
run Suse 7.1. However, I get stuck in the installation and it keeps 
going back to the installation menu after prompting for being rebooted.

All seems to work ok until the rebbot to continue the installation of 
the system. I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction ( I did 
read the fine manual ) but I am still unclear on the boot parameters 
upon rebooting.

I have booted from a floppy containing linload.exe and milo and 
installation from the cd works ok.

After installing the base system, kernel and drivers I find the 
following mounted:

/dev/ram0	on	/	type ext2 (rw)
/proc		on	/proc	type proc (rw)
/dev/sda2	on	/target	type ext2 (rw)
/dev/cdrom	on	/instmnt type iso9660 (ro)

there are two versions of fstab on on /target/etc
/dev/sda2	/	ext2	errors=remount-ro
/dev/sda3	none	swap	sw
proc		/proc	proc	defaults
/dev/fd0	/floppy	auto	
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom	iso9660

and /etc/fstab that only shows the /dev/fd0

Then mkdir /mnt/fat
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat
cd /instmnt/milo
cp miata linload.exe /mnt/fat
mount then also shows /dev/sda1 on /mnt/fat

fdisk /dev/sda indicated sda2 as bootable

I edited the boot parameters as boot sda2:/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-generic 
root=/dev/sda2 but that doesn't work - it just restarts the installation 
from the cd.

Thank you in advance,
John Larsen