Re: Alpha DKA600 = Linux /dev/$what?
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On 05-Jan-2000 Kyle Tucker wrote:
> Way back when, kylet wrote:
>>
>> Okay, but all I get from both floppy boots is kernel panics
>> from "Couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0" for
>> floppies and "Could load root fs on xx:yy" from CDs. Is all
>> this just supposed to work "in theory" or can I trust that
>> someone has actually had this running on a sable box?
>
> Okay, let me propose this. Since I cannot get this
> built via booting from the Debian CD, can I install
> Tru64 Unix on this 2100 on disk DKA100 and then "build"
> a bootable Linux disk on DKA0 from the Debian CD using
> "dd" and other tools in Tru64?
I had similar problems but the systems in question had to go live _fast_. So I
booted with a kernel from a floppy with root on nfs (on a linux laptop). If you
want try this approach. In btw this is something sparc disks have and the alpha
disks are definitely missing - root on nfs kernel.
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Anton R. Ivanov
IP Engineer Level3 Communications
RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>
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