Re: booting linux from two floppies

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Hello Sacha,

My friendly AM (fall, 2000), it's nice to see you. :-)

Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:

> Hello.
>
> While trying to make debian-installer working on alpha I faced a
> trouble: I need to boot from two floppies, one containing vmlinuz with
> aboot and second with some initrd.img.
>
> I boot kernel with load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 and variations of
> noinitrd, root=/dev/{fd0,ram} but the boot process fails before or
> after kernel prompt for second floppy.
>
> So the question is, that wrong do I do?
The obvious thing to check: does the initrd.img fit onto a single 
floppy?  A lot of things tend to be bigger on alpha than other platforms.

Otherwise, what kind of alpha and boot loader are you using?  (SRM, 
AlphaBios, etc.)

Cheers,
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