RE: Alpha and Debain
I just installed redhat 6.2 with out any problems
so I am pretty sure there is something wrong with the newer alpha kernel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 5:28 PM
To: Anish Patel
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Alpha and Debian
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Anish Patel wrote:
> 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...
Did you compile it yourself? Is it one from debian? What's the version
number and what does it print as it boots, you should see a line similar
to:
ooting on EB164 variation SX164 using machine vector SX164 from SRM
--rdp
> -----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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> >
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