Re: Problems booting on a Alpha1000A

[Oyvind Moll <oyvindmo@pvv.ntnu.no>]

* Adam Di Carlo
|
| Damien, I'm not sure about your problem or how to solve it.  I'm
| CC'ing the debian Alpha mailing list.
| 
| damien.nicolas@crpht.lu writes:
| 
| > We try to install the Debian distribution on a Alpha Server 1000A
| > (noritake-primo) and we have some problems ....
| > We have made two floppy disks installation (rescue.bin and drv1440.bin)
| > These disks was made with dd
| > At the SRM console prompt, we have entered : boot dva0
| > At the console screen, theses lines appears :
| > <<
| > (boot dva0.0.0.1000.0 -flags 0.0)
| > block 0 of dva0.0.0.1000.0 is a valid boot block
| > ...
| > ...
| > ...
| > jumping to bootstrapcode
| > aboot : linux/alpha SRM bootloader version 0.5
| > aboot : switching to OSF/1 PALCode version 1.22
| > aboot : booted_dev = 'dva 0 1000 0 0 0 0 0', guessing boot_device = 'fd0'
| > aboot : loading plain ....
| > aboot : unexpected object file format 13
| > aboot : loading compressed ....
| > 
| > unzip : unknown compression method
| > Enter kernel name and arguments
| > aboot :
| > >>

I'm having the same problem trying to boot an XP1000 from a Debian
CD-ROM.  Are there any detailed information on the machine model that
I can give you that'll help out in the troubleshooting?

I'd be happy to try out any hints you might have and report my
findings.

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   Øyvind Møll
   oyvindmo@initio.no
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