Re: Kernel Panic at installation on XL-300
Bonjour Jean-Sébastien
I ended up making boot disks to install (using the images on the CD).
You need to make a MILO diskette, which you already have, a root
diskette using root.bin, and a rescue diskette using rescue.bin. You
then boot to MILO, and issue this boot command:
boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
That will start the installer, from which you will be able to select
your CDs as the installation source.
Will try that tonight, got to go to work :-(
BTW, I had a 2GB drive too, and it's a real pain having so little space.
I must have that somewhere in a box, will do some digging
Also, if your machine has a 3DLabs Oxygen 102 video card like mine did,
ditch that and get a cheap Matrox or ATI card.
Came with the Matrox Millenium, I use to have this card in the first pc
i built all by myself ;-)
Finally, I encourage more RAM. My machine had 64MB stock, I upgraded to
512MB for (again) about 65$ CAD, and it runs so much smoother! Just
remember these machines need 36bit parity RAM SIMMs.
Have 128Mb, will do for the time being, not quite sure whether i want a
GUI on that box
If you need any more advice on this type of machine, just ask. I have a
Windows HLP file that has some nice info on the actual hardware found in
Alpha XL 300, 333 and 366 machines, made by Digital themselves. I can
send it to you if you want. It was very helpful to me.
Yes please!
Good luck,
J-S
Thank you for your prompt reply, i will keep you posted
cheers
Thierry
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