Re: trouble installing 2.2rev0a on a pc164lx
Stefan,
I was able to get the installation started by booting the kernel from the
installation cd and the root file system from a floppy disk. However,
the root file system still does not seem to work and I was not able to
find it listed as a bug. In any case, thanks for the help.
Mike
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, scr wrote:
> Michael Kane schrieb:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having trouble installing version 2.2rev0a of debian using cds. I'm
> > able to get milo to start up without a problem. When I pass
> > boot hdd:/boot/linux root=/dev/hdd/boot/root.bin load_ramdisk=1 to milo
> > the boot process beings without a problem, but the I get the messages:
>
> Did you try to go the "normal" way for ARC/AlphaBIOS systems,
> that is to install using two boot floppies and to boot into the
> installation process using
>
> boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
>
> as milo command?
>
> A few days ago I tried to boot from a potato CD on a ARC based
> system (PC164) and I was not successfull. I found another way
> to avoid the need for boot floppies, which I described in
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha-0011/msg00109.html
>
> So booting from floppies or from HD should work, but I'm not
> aware why booting directly from CD does not work using
> ARC/AlphaBIOS and milo.
>
> Good luck,
> Stefan Schroepfer
>
>
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