RE: Intro / help (update)
Thanks Greg,
I'll give that a try. What I've tried so far is to forget about fd0
(guess I was calling it the wrong thing???). And tried this
'boot hdc:boot/linux root=/dev/hdc/boot/root.bin -t iso9660'
Once again I got further than I had before but now I get this error:
Kernal Panic no init found: Try passing init = option to kernal
So just as soon as I find out a) which init option I need to pass to the
kernal and b) what the syntax to doing that is in MILO (or whatever I
end up using trying to install srm now - thanks Falk). I may be sending
another letter to the list. <g>
Thanks all,
Carl P.
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 15:08, Greg Eldridge wrote:
> Carl..
>
> My pc164 wouldn't run MILO - or at least I couldn't get it to.
> SRM also wouldn't support my scsi disks
>
> I boot from the floppy, works like a charm.
>
> SRM>> boot dva0
>
> Greg.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIME :cparrish@cox.net Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:50 PM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
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> Subject: Re: Intro / help (update)
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>
> Okay so more reading and I dd the root.bin file (from the boot dir) onto
> a disk. then tried this from MILO
> 'boot hdc:boot/linux root=/dev/fd0 -t iso9660' and now I get this error:
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem. I know neither how to specify the ufs or which ufs I should be using (I
> don't see Linux as an option). Thanks again, Carl P On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 10:19, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > Hi my name is Carl Parrish. I'm not really new to Linux but I guess you
> > could say I'm new to Debian and *really* new to Alpha. I typically would
> > lurk for a few days before posting a "please help me" message. but I'm
> > pretty stuck and need help fast. > > I've just recently got a AlphaPC 164SX. It looks like I have access to
> > ARBIOS and MILO but not srm. I have the Alpha-Debian disk1 image burned
> > on a CD-ROM (did the md5sum). put the CD-ROM in restarted the
> > computer......Nothing. So I did a little background reading (RTFM). Came
> > up with lots of info for srm but since I can't seem to find srm didn't
> > help me much. So I went into Milo after much trial and erro tried the
> > following command. 'boot hdc:boot/linux -t iso9660' and suddenly it
> > actually seemed to try to boot from the CD-ROM (or at least the closest
> > I've come so far.) But then it stops and I get the following error
> > > Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> > > So any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> > > Thanks, > Carl P.
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