Re: AlphaServer 4100 support?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:48:23AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>
> Well OK, I've pulled out all the PCI cards, 3 of the 4 CPUs, and 1.5 out
> of the 2 gigs of memory. I've let the installation kernel spin over
> night spitting out it's PCI probe errors. I've also upgraded the
> firmware on the machine. Nothing works. There is nothing wrong with
> the machine, as DEC Unix and FreeBSD both worked fine on it and its
> twin, while Debian choked on both machines.
>
> I was not able to get the machine to load a kernel off a Redhat boot
> floppy, but that is more due to my inability to figure out how (i.e.
> it's not a compatibility issue).
>
> Since both woody and potato use a 2.2 kernel for installation, it might
> be interesting to see if 2.4 will boot on this machine. On x86, we have
> the bf24 bootfloppies which use the 2.4 kernel. Does anybody have
> something like that for Alpha?
RH 7.2 for Alpha CD#1 has a bootable floppy image in /images/generic.img.
"dd" it to a floppy, and also the ramdisk.img in the same place, then boot
the "generic.img" one via:
>>> boot dva0 -fl 3
placing the "ramdisk.,img" one in the floppy driver when the kernel asks
for it.
Of course, that's assuming that even the RH kernel gets that far... ;-}
Good luck.
Oh, BTW, a "show config" log from SRM serial console would also be a great
help in determining just what you've got for hardware...
--Jay++
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