Re: what set of bootfloppys for alphaserver 1200?

[David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org>]

Andreas Schuldei <schuldei@uni-bremen.de> writes:

> I tryed that but what do they mean with <boot-path> ?
> 
> If I enter 
> linux root=/dev/fd0  [...]
> it tells me 
> ...blah...
> aboot: loading plain linux...
> Cannot access data beyond an ofset of 1474559
> Offsetrequest was -2035709375 (or something like that)
> ext2_bread: read error
> aboot: read returned -1 instead of 8 bytes
> aboot: loading compressed linux...
> 
> unzip: attempt to read past eof

I've seen this too, and I've got no idea what causes it,
unfortunately.  The one case in which I can reliably get this is when
I boot aboot 0.5 from a floppy (with "boot dva0" and no boot_file or
boot_osflags) and then attempt to enter the kernel from the aboot
command line.  FWIW the "enhanced" version of aboot I'm working on
doesn't seem to do this anymore, though I'm not entirely sure why (!)

Try (from the SRM command line):

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

This should make aboot boot immediately.