Having trouble installing Debian potato on an alpha
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My hardware:
Digital "Multia" Alpha workstation
64MB RAM
500 MB Quantum HD
The problem:
Since I have no floppy drive and no way to hook a CD-ROM drive up, I'm
attempting to netboot the Debian installer.
The ARC and SRM consoles load fine (afaict). The SRM console loads the
kernel fine via bootp & tftp (again afaict). I'm using the command
boot ewa0 -p bootp
to boot.
What happens is that after the kernel starts to run, I see a message
referring to some PAL code, get a warm reboot, and find myself back at the
SRM console. This happens reliably.
NetBSD does the same. I haven't tried anything else yet, mostly because
I'm pretty sure I'll get the same results.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu
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