Re: Booting on an AlphaServer 1000
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Salvador Pinto Abreu wrote:
> I've been trying to load Debian on an AlphaServer 1000 (5/300), but haven't
> made it past MILO yet;
Although I don't have an AS, I'll attempt to help here :)
> I picked the Alcor milo from gatekeeper and it loads fine, but when I give
> it the boot command it immediately bombs with a message sort of like this:
> MILO> boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 2096K size
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
> CIA machine check: reason for machine-check unknown (0xd001a0)
> vector=0x670 la_ptr=0xfffffc00000005a0 pc=0xfffffc0000477820
> anyone have any hints?
What version of MILO did you pick up? FYI, I've had great success with
the 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 MILOs even with the 2.1 series kernels For some
reason, the newer MILOs seem to give alot of people trouble (by newer, I
mean 2.1.x).
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