Re: booting linux from two floppies
Are you getting a bunch of device full messages? You may need to specify a
larger ramdisk size.
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 08:33 am, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 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.)
>
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