James D. Freels (freelsjd@ornl.gov) wrote: > 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. The install instructions seem to fail to meantion that you have to install the boot stuff manually (someone correct me here if I'm wrong). What you need to do is boot like you did the first time for the install, but change root to be your hdd. After you have sucessfully booted into your new install you'll have to 'mkfs -t msdos /dev/xxx' (where xxx is where you set aside 2MB or so for milo and linload). The just copy milo and linload to there. <ftp://your_favorite_mirror/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.16-2000-07-17/images-1.44/rescue.bin> and <ftp://your_favorite_mirror/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.16-2000-07-17/images-1.44/root.bin> HTH, Ron
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