Nipper wrote:
Hi,I recently got an alphaserver 1200 5/533 rawhide/tincup. I've tried the woody alpha 3.0r0 install CD, but I get an oops (Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000000010 in swapper) while the kernel is booting from the CD. Is there a work-around for this? Is there an iso with another kernel version I could try?2.2r7 boot floppies do boot but don't recogize the dac960, and there seems to be a bug in the installer where it doesn't recognize the driver floppies properly so the install can't be completed.Has anyone successfully installed debian on a similar machine lately? I can try to supple the full oops if it would be any use. Thanks, Stephen.
I had exactly the same problem on the same machine. Woody was not yet "stable", though. Here's how I to solved the problem:In short, I added temporarly another disk (on the scsi controller for the cdrom), installed Woody just to be able te compile a 2.4.18 kernel (with gcc-3.0, I had a problem compiling the DAC960 driver with gcc-2.95). Note: it seems the DAC960 drivers won't work either if configured as module (you have to put it in the kernel).
I then copied my system to the DAC960-controlled disks.It's no piece of cake, but since then (back november 2001), the machine is running really fine (just a problem with aboot not choosing automatically to boot, have to press "0" and <enter>, I don't care, I don't have to reboot it often!).
PS: if you need the kernel or the config file, I can send it to you. I even think I made a kernel package of it.