RE: Netbooting a DEC 3000 m300
That is a Turbo channel architecture machine. It won't run Linux.
Try one of the BSD distributions instead.
Jeff Donsbach
Partner Engineering
Compaq Computer Corp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Lavoie [mailto:christian.lavoie@mail.mcgill.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:14 PM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Netbooting a DEC 3000 m300
>
>
> I'm trying to netboot a DEC 3000 m300 workstation (two in fact)
>
> No floppy, no cd-roms, only Tru64 installed.
>
> I've got the TFTP and BOOTP parts nice. In fact, it starts to boot.
>
> But it dies after:
> Linux/AXP bootp loader for Linux 2.2.18pre21
> Expected vptb at 0000000200000000, got 0000000000000000
>
> ?05 HLT INSTR
> PC=00000000,20000014 PSL= 00000000,00001F00
>
> ----
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tried both tftpboot.img from woody and potato, they both look bad.
>
> What am I missing? If all else fails, I have a couple of i386
> based machines
> around, how can I cross-compile an alpha kernel, wrap it in a
> tftpboot.img
> files (with whatever else is required) and try again?
>
> Have fun,
>
> Chris
>
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> Christian Lavoie, christian.lavoie@mail.mcgill.ca
> http://www.christianlavoie.com
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