Re: trying to install slink from cdrom on ds10...
Matthew,
I have installed Debian on several DS-10s but not from the CD. Three
documents were essential in getting it running:
The Readme file for the Debian installation
The Compaq installation guide for DS10 and DS20 at
http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/linux/install_guide.html. It is
intended for RedHat, but the process is easily adapted to Debian. There
are hardware issues (cards have to be in certain slots) that caused me
lots of grief before I knew about it.
The SRM HOW-TO, from the LDP site.
As I understand it DS10 requires a 2.2.12 or later kernel. I got one at
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Kernels/generic-up-2.2.12.gz.
I created the installation floppies and replaced the kernel on the rescue
disk with the 2.2.12 one. Then installed from the floppies, and used
apt-get over the network to complete it.
I would think that you could do this with the CD as well. HTH.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Matthew Whitworth wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:17:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Matthew Whitworth <matthew@okcomputer.org>
> To: Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: trying to install slink from cdrom on ds10...
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> > Oh! I just realised - you said you set boot_flags, right? It should be
> > boot_osflags...
> >
> > Just in case, I also found two useful kernel parameters: "panic=n",
> > where n is the number of seconds to wait after displaying the panic
> > message, and "no-scroll", which disables VGA console scrolling.
> > Theoretically, either one of them should be sufficient for you to see
> > the actual panic message. And you can pass the parameters on the boot
> > command line like this:
> > >>> boot dqa0 -flags "root=/dev/hda panic=10"
>
> Nikita, you are the King! boot_flags was a misprint in my mail -- it was
> really boot_osflags on the machine. I set panic=300 and saw the
> following:
>
> request_module[nls_iso8859-1]: Root fs not mounted
> Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1
> VFS: Mounted root (iso9660 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
> Which I guess is a good point. Can't seem to find a live filesystem
> containing init on the CD. Should I be loading something into a RAMdisk?
>
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> matthew@okcomputer.org
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