Re: AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 installation question
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:31:43AM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote:
> As the topic says I have an AlphaServer 1000A and am trying to install
> Debian on it. A few seconds and screen flickers after it starts booting
> the kernel from the rescue image I get kicked back to SRM with the error:
>
> halt code = 6
> double error halt
> PC = fffffc000031b24c
>
> I've tried Debian 2.1 and 2.2 and a few other distributions just to be
> thorough and they all do the same thing. I am new to the Alpha
> architecture so this maybe not be a Linux specific issue but since the
> box is currently running Tru64 and had NT on it at one point so I don't
> think it's a hardware problem. I have updated the SRM firmware to 5.7 and
> ARC is 4.59 which had no effect.
>
> Basically the hardware in the box is a Mylex DAC960(all the drives on on
> this RAID controller), QLogic ISP10x0(cdrom is on here), DE500-BA NIC, S3
> Trio64/Trio32 PCI Video(on-board LISA video is disabled), 128M memory.
>
> Any help you could give me would be great, if you need anymore
> information let me know, just please specify where to find it =)
Hello,
I had the same problem ... and Jay Estabrook helped to me, and possibly you.
Try image from:
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/TESTING/up-2.2.17-pre12-15jul/
He made patches for this alpha. They are now included in 2.2.17pre13 if
you want to compile your own kernel ...
I think, this will help :-)
Good luck.
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