RE: Alpha and Debian
it is the lastest kernel, has support for 2k Alpha. i know the last install
i did was a Redhat 5.2, but apparently that cd has gone bad...
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:16 AM
To: Anish Patel
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Alpha and Debian
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Anish Patel wrote:
> Booting from a SRM console, could it be because the drive is over 20 gigs?
wouldn't think so...is this a fairly recent SRM?
> yes the settings are correct for slave and master and they are on the
first
> IDE channel
OK, which kernel are you booting? It almost sounds like the kernel you're
using doesn't have SRM support in there.
--rdp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:01 AM
> To: Anish Patel
> Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Alpha and Debian
>
>
>
> Are you booting from SRM or AlphaBIOS? and make sure all the device
> master/slave selections are setup properly.
>
> --rdp
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Anish Patel wrote:
>
> > I have an Alpha 164SX, every time I try to install ANY Linux I get the
> error
> > hda2:<> lost interrupt or something similar, I know it has the lost
> > interrupt part
> > I want to know if this is something wrong with the new kernel because I
> have
> > installed BSD with out any trouble.
> >
> > I have attempted to install Mandrake 7.0, the latest Debain and Turbo
> > I installed Redhat 5.2 on this machine about 3 years ago but I was put
> away
> > in storage. the hd had be removed by me earlier
> >
> > SYSTEM CONFIG:
> > Alpha 533 21164 (on board IDE)
> > 128 Megs PC 100 mem
> > 20G drive (IDE)
> > 48X cd rom (IDE)
> > Matrox Mystique 4Meg
> > apparently USB is on the board, just headers are not provided.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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