Lost with Jensen
Hi all.
I have a Jensen (DEC 2000/150 AXP) machine with 64M of RAM and 3 SCSI
disks (2Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb) and a SCSI cdrom.
I would like to run debian on it, as other distros don't support
"oficially" jensen machines.
I have downloaded Debian 2.2 r6 for alpha and booted with the CD (as
Jensens dont boot from floppy)
In the SRM console
>>> boot dka400
(dka400 is the cdrom)
After that I see the aboot console. My first try was to boot from the
pre-configured kernels
aboot> 0
An it boots, but it hangs after writing some messages about the parallel
port. Well, its better than RedHat, that hangs after Starting kswapd.
I started to search in the cd, looking for a specific jensen kernel and I
found it in cd 1
/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux
I tried to boot from this image with several combinations (Im not an
expert with aboot)
aboot> dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux
root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
aboot> 0/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux
root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
aboot> 1/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/linux
root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
But It cant boot.
There are also some floppy images under
/dists/potato/main/disks-alpha/2.2.20-2000-12-03/jensen/images-1.44
But, for what are they? Jensens cant boot from floppy disks. Are these
images for booting from aboot?
I know that there are jensen machines with Debian. If somebody could help
me, I would be very grateful.
Bye
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