Re: help on initial install
He has an AlphaBIOS system. I just looked at the instructions myself,
and it looks like he was up to step 7.14 and then the "moment of
truth" step 7.15. At 7.15, it would not boot.
I have only upgraded my system from 2.1 to 2.2. I built my initial
2.1 systems from RedHat systems delivered from Microway. So, I have
not built a Debian system from scratch.
The sad thing is my friend did all this today, and he has already
reinstalled his RedHAT 5.2 system just to get things working again.
He may have already given up. This after I had been bragging for
months on how great Debian 2.2 was.
Also, I noticed several references to "slink" in the documentation.
I also could not find the rescue.bin and root.bin files yesterday in
the disks-* areas.
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>James D. Freels (freelsjd@ornl.gov) wrote:
>
>> A colleague just tried to install Debian 2.2/Alpha via network install
>> option. It worked fine up until the question of "booting from hard
>> disk". At this point (I assume similar to lilo on the Intel), it
>> caused the system to be unbootable.
>>=20
>> Has an initial install been debugged for the Alpha. Are the online
>> instructions complete?
>
>Which firmware does it have? There are different things that need to be
>done for the two main types. Is it ARC/ARCS/AlphaBIOS or SRM?=20
>
>For ARC/ARCS/AlphaBIOS you boot via MILO (Alpha version of lilo). In the
>case you need to leave a small (2MB or so) FAT16 partition on the drive
>for MILO and linload (and ldmilo if ARCS). =20
>
>If it is SRM then you boot via aboot. You need to leave space at the
>begining of the drive for it (one cylinder).=20
>
>Install instructions can be found at:
><http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/alpha/install.en.html>=20
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>
>HTH,
>
>Ron
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