RE: Ramdisk for Jensen
Peter,
Thanks for the info, I believe I was able to install correctly. I marched
through the installation program, and arrived at the prompt for reboot. I
rebooted, and got to the SRM console, not unexpectedly. I am at a loss as to
what to do next.
I peered through the docs and tried several things:
>>> boot -fl "i" dka0
>>> boot -fl "1" dka0
(many other permutations and other commands from other docs that did not seem to
help the matter)
Both of these gave me the following:
...
aboot: valid disklable found: 3 partitions
aboot: don't know how to mount partition 2 (filesystem type 1)
Enter kernel name and arguments:
So, I tried:
aboot> 0/a root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
(took me back to the installation program, maybe I should use a different RAM
disk? I tried the Jensen boot image and the Jensen rescue disk, but neither
helped)
aboot> 0/a root=/dev/sda load_ramdisk=1
(seems to go along well for a while then panics: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to
mount root fs on 08:00)
(I also tried without the load_ramdisk parameter or with the value set to 0)
I sure would appreciate any advice you have to offer. Thanks.
- C
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Mott [mailto:mott@mathworks.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 2:06 PM
> To: Colin DuPlantis
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Ramdisk for Jensen
>
>
> At one point the debian kernel needed a ramdisk_size=5120
> boot parameter. Could it be that?
>
> To try test this you want to:
> >> boot -fl "i"
> aboot> 0/a root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=5120
> prompt_ramdisk=1
>
> I would recommend that you try the files from:
>
> ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/axp/Jensen/install (which
> was unresponsive)
>
> or its mirror:
>
>
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/alpha/azstarnet/Jensen/install
>
> They worked for me. I got the same error messages you're
> getting when I used the kernel from the DEC site. My problem
> was a ramdisk problem, although I thought it was at first. I
> described it in an earlier message to this list, enclosed below.
>
> - Peter Mott
>
> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 11:20:23 -0500
> To: ESP <evangelo@pigdog.org>, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> From: Peter Mott <mott@mathworks.com>
> Subject: Jensen installation (was: 981115 jensen/resc1440.bin
> image bad?)
>
> I have just completed installing linux on a Jensen. Below is
> a pointer the Jensen-HOWTO that worked for me. To make this
> installation work I actually dedicated a disk to aboot,
> because the RedHat 5.0 installation process wanted an fdisk
> style partition table on the target installation hard disk,
> while the aboot tools create a BSD partition table, needed by
> the SRM console to boot. I could not easily make these co-exist.
>
> I'd like to go through a debian installation, instead of
> RedHat. Give me the pointers to what you are using, and I'll
> go through the installation too.
>
> (LOOKING FOR partition table documentation: Anyone have
> pointers to documentation on the disk structures and physical
> blocks used for these two partition tables?)
>
> (LOOKING FOR fdisk/aboot coexistence: If someone knows how to
> get aboot to co-exists with an fdisk partition table I'd like
> to have a hint. The issue being a compatibility between what
> the SRM console needs to load aboot and the fdisk style
> partition table.)
>
> Here's the location where I got tools and a Jensen-HOWTO that
> worked for me. (The tools I got from the DEC site failed at
> the point of loading the ramdisk.)
>
ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/axp/Jensen/install (which was unresponsive) or
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/alpha/azstarnet/Jensen/install
Good luck. If you use these instructions and trip over something, drop me a note
I may have seen it.
- Peter Mott
At 12:38 PM 12/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I am trying to install Debian on my Jensen. I followed the instructions at:
>ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/Digital/Linux-Alpha/JENSEN_INSTALL/Jensen-HOWTO
and
>eventually was able to get to step "6B When prompted, insert the ramdisk
>floppy". I inserted the disk made from
>http://lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr/axp/bf981115/root1440.bin. I created the ramdisk
>with the following command from another linux machine: 'dd if=root1440.bin
>of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k'.
>
>Given this prompt on the Jensen: "VMS Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into
>ramdisk and press ENTER", I inserted the above mentioned disk and pressed
ENTER.
>
>I see this line:
>Ramdisk: Compressed image found at block 0
>
>then I get a screen full of these messages:
>end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 5952
>end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 5954
>...
>end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 5996
>end_request: I/O error, dev 01:00, sector 5998
>
>followed by nothing...
>
>I tried several different methods of creating the disk on several different
>machines. I tried different diskettes. Any ideas about what might be causing
>this? Thanks.
>
>- C
>
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