Bug#273363: Alphastation 255 ramdisk probs on d-i netboot

["Brian S. Julin" <bri@abrij.org>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: from ~jbaily daily images Sept 25 2004 02:11am EST
uname -a: n/a
Date: Sep 25 2004 13:00 EST
Method: bootp image from a known-good tftp server used for other installs

Machine: Alphastation 255
Processor: unknown estimated 230MHz
Memory: 64M
Root Device: n/a
Root Size/partition table: n/a
Output of lspci and lspci -n: n/a

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [E]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network:         [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:    [ ]
Mount partitions:       [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]

Comments/Problems:

detects 8192 pages in 3 memclusters
vga+ console fine
acks 64M total RAM
"boot options" is "0x0"
ramdisk driver init 16 disks @8192K size
ramdisk finds compressed image
ramdisk frees 3017K initrd
VFS mounted root (ext2 filesytem).

...all the above looked relatively normal up to here:

attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=10912, limit=8192
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=10912, limit=8192
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02

then the standard "Please append a correct
blah blah blah..." stuff.