Re: Problems booting on a Alpha1000A

[David Dula <ddula@alfomc.net>]

Actually I fought through this problem last week

Try

>>>boot dva0 -file linux -flags "root=/dev/fd0 prompt_ramdisk=1 load_ramdisk=1"

Or something like that.

I think I actually ended up at the aboot prompt

aboot> linux root=/dev/fd0 prompt_ramdisk=1 load_ramdisk=1

Which actually worked - the floppy driver seems a bit flakey so it took more
than one try.

My problem was my TGA0/E3 so back to Tru64 until I get a good video card.

Dave Dula

Gerhard Kroder wrote:

> Oyvind Moll wrote:
> >
> > * 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
>
> on my AS300 it worked from srm with "boot dva", it then started milo from
> disk.. (avanti-images)
>
> > I'd be happy to try out any hints you might have and report my
> > findings.
>
> i'm not familiar with srm or alphas, but maybe this works...
>
>  gerhard
>
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