Re: boot problems on alpha
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:10:41PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote:
>
> I've got a new toy, an alphaserver 1000. Now I'm trying to boot from cd to
> install linux. But the on the srm-console
>
> boot dka0 -fl 0
>
> doesn't work.
>
> >>>boot dka0 -fl 0
> (boot dka0.0.0.2000.0 -flags 0)
> block 0 of dka0.0.0.2000.0 is a valid boot block
> reading 16 blocks from dka0.0.0.2000.0
> bootstrap code read in
> Building FRU table
> base = 1c6000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2000
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page table at 1fff0000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to the primary CPU
> jumping to bootstrap code
> can't open osf_boot
>
>
> and the aborts booting. Before I got this machine, some dec-unix (true64 or
> vms) run; are there any srm-variables I can check? I think, srm tries to
> boot a file named osf_boot (which was originally the name of the kernel);
> so I had to provide the right name for linux.
Do:
>>> sho dev
to see where the CD ROM device actually is; dka0 is probably a hard
disk, as usually, the CD ROM is dka400 or dka500 or some such...
Good luck.
--Jay++
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