Re: Problems installing Debian 2.1 Alpha on Ruffian Pc164 UX board !
On 5-Jan-99 at 20:09, Peter Biechele (peter.biechele@physik.uni-freiburg.de)
wrote: >
> We have tried to install Debian 2.1 Alpha on an PC164-UX board, Symbios
> Logic SCSI onboard, DEC 21143 Ethenet onboard, 1,5 GB Ram, SCSI CD ROM,
> 8GB IBM SCSI Platte.
Similar to the one I run, except I only have 256M ram.
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> We had the following problems:
> -- Milo worked fine, except that we had to use different parameters for the
> AlphaBIOS/ARC compoared to the ones described in the HOWTO.
Probably because ARCSBIOS (which is what the UX has) is different to ARC and
AlphaBIOS; this depends on which HOWTO you are talking about.
> -- The kernel did always give KERNEL PAGING REQUESTS ERRORS, when trying to
> initiialize partitions on the hard disk. So we could not get through to
> installing the base sstem.
This one is tricky. Firstly, make sure you are using the latest milo, which is
probably available from gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Kernels as
ldmilo-ruffian-981020 and milo-ruffian-981020 (rename to ldmilo.exe and milo on
whatever media you are loading it from).
This may or may not fix the problem. If it does, then well and good. If it
doesn't, try limiting the amount of memory the kernel sees to 224M (set
MEMORY_SIZE 224 at the milo prompt). If that fixes it, then the bug regarding
ruffians using more than 224M of memory may still exist. If it doesn't then the
problem presumably lies elsewhere.
David
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