Re: alpha can't load ramdisk, image to big

[Arturo Galvan <agalvan@tcsi.com>]

Hi

  I spent quite some time having similar problems with a multia. The
following worked for me:

  MILO> boot fd0:/linux root=/dev/scd0 load_ramdisk=1

  (using the cd as root).

  After loading the kernel (the file linux on tht rescue disk) it
prompted me for the root disk. It loaded the rood disk image from the
floppy drive and it proceeded to do the install from the cd drive.


  Hope that helps

     Arturo.


Matthias Halfmann writes:
 > Hello,
 >     I have a sx164 motherboard with a 533Mhz alpha. I installed redhat 6
 > on it a while ago and since then decided I wanted my debian on it
 > aswell. I got the proper rescue disk, and root1440.bin, dd the images on
 > disks and tryied to boot.
 > MILO boot fd0:/linux load_ramdisk=1
 > It boots up all nice and happy and then asks me to change disks. I out
 > in the root image and it give me an error saying that the image is too
 > big. Even after adding the option ramdisk_size=32768 which should make
 > the maximun ramdisk size 32 megs it give me this error. I have tried re
 > writing the disks with no luck. I also tried a different kernel with no
 > luck. I also tried to have the disk with the root1440.bin image be
 > mounted as the root but I get a kernel panic because it can't mount the
 > disk. The only thing I can find that could possible be the cause of all
 > this is that during boot the kernel detects my floppy as a 2.88 meg
 > drive, which is not and the alpha bios detects it as a 1.44 meg drive.
 > Also the redhat kernel I used to install redhat did the same thing but
 > its root disk worked fine. I have a cd so if someone can tell me how to
 > boot of the cd and have it load a ramdisk that would be great. but
 > anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.
 > 
 > Thank You
 > matt
 > 
 > 
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