RE: FrameBuffers

[Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>]

Can you give us the exact message from SRM?

Also, when you partitioned the disks, did you use BSD disklabels? If I
remember correctly, DarkHelmet will not change an existing DOS disklabel
to BSD, but if the disk is clean it will write a BSD label. SRM needs a
BSD disklabel to boot.

There's more info in the SRM Howto:
http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/srm.html

--rdp

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote:

> Progress at last.
> 
> I installed DarkHelmet in text mode an all went well. However when the
> machine reboots and when I point to the boot device I get error messages and
> it refused to boot ..... bad block device etc ..... I have checked the
> syntax a million times and I am convinced it is ok.
> 
> Anyone any thoughts? 
> 
> I'm becoming rather upset with Alphas ...... it only took me 2 days to
> master linux on Sparcs.
> 
> Cheers
> Iain
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:chris@debian.org]
> Sent: 06 September 2000 18:25
> To: JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1)
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; Henry House
> Subject: RE: FrameBuffers
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote:
> 
> > OK, Debian it is, just having problems getting hold of potato at the
> moment.
> 
> Connection problems or is a mirror full?
> 
> > Nothing was passed to the kernel on boot.
> 
> AFAIK, you shouldn't need to pass anything special to the kernel for it to
> work.
> 
> > I would like to hope that they are not too much hassle. I have a
> SparcUltra
> > 1 running RedHat that I would like to replace as my workstation with the
> AS
> > 1000A with my Voodoo3 running Debian and Gnome. I think/hope that it would
> > be a bit faster that the sparc (-:
> 
> I'll take that sparc if you don't want it :-P  (I've got three older
> sparcs already).
> 
> Question on your problem, though...once it gets past SRM, is there ANY
> text echoed to the screen (ie. kernel messages) or is it just blank?  I'm
> wondering if it's the kernel at fault or if it's something else.  If the
> kernel text is showing, then that's one more thing we can probably
> eliminate.  Also, if it's DarkHelmet...er...RedHat, then I believe they
> run the vga16 server for part of their install (please correct me if I'm
> wrong...it's been awhile since I played with RH), which may also have
> some problem dealing with the V3.
> 
> C
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org


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