Re: donation of a mirror

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Bill Warner wrote:

> Ack!! I wanted to get out of here by 5 today but I still haven't had much
> chance or luck to get this system up.  what floppies do I need to get it booted
> or how to I boot from the cdrom from milo?  We have tried several of the
> resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin and root1440.bin files from lx164 pc164 noname164
> and cant seem to get any of them to work.  we are booting with
> 
> milo> boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> 
> it boots asks for the root disk then errors out with cant mount root floppy
> what do i need to do.

I have never done an install on an alpha, but I have CC'd this message to
John who has an alpha similar to the one you describe and the
debian-alpha list, perhaps one of them can give you some advice.

However, from what you describe it sounds like you need to tell milo to
load a ram disk image as well as the root disk itself. The root should not
be root=/dev/fd0, but it should be root=/dev/initrd (???)

[Aside: Bill is from The Linux Store, they are setting up a 600Mhz 21164
to act as a mirror and to be open to developers]

Thanks,
Jason