RE: Alpha newbie install woes
You must specify the root option I believe the syntax is:
Boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
I am not sure about the exact syntax, all I know is that when I had my XL I
needed to specify the root and the load_ramdisk option. I got rid-of all my
non-SRM machines a while ago. :)
Check the MILO-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Menkveld [mailto:shannon@strangehouse.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:39 PM
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Alpha newbie install woes
Subject: Re: Alpha newbie install woes
> You may want to try both the LDMILO.EXE and the Ruffian MILO found at:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~rbf/files/ruffian/
>
> The owner, Ron Farrer, had much the same problem as you, Shannon, and
> together we figured a way to patch LDMILO.EXE so that it would no
> longer perform the test that was failing and causing that error
> message.
>
> Give it a try and let us know how it worked...
>
> --Jay++
GOt it, and it boots to a MILO prompt. Yea!! Of course, nothing can ever be
easy, so on to the next issue:
I load boot the kernel from the debian rescue floppy, and it boot great,
but when it asks for the root disk, and I give the disk I created from
boot.bin, using rawrite2, it pukes. htis has happend using 3 different
disks, made from different D/L's of root.bin. What moron mistake am I
making now?
Thanks,
--Shannon
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