On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:40:21PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: > Great comment. I just booted with -fl 0 and I got to the installer > menu. I did see some flash of red, and messages that made me think it > would crash again, but it did not. Should I be concerned? I don't know. Let us know if it does crash. :) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon@debian.org] > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:37 AM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: AlphaServer 800 Installation > > Jim, > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:13:17AM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: > > As stated below, I just tried the install boot using sarge, and did > not > > get the "kernel paging request" error. Perhaps this is because I got > a > > different error. After finding the aboot.conf file on the CD image, I > > entered the command as follows: > > > >>>boot dak400 -fi /boot/vmlinuz -fl "ramdisk_size=16384 > > initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall" > > Too much second-guessing of the system here. "boot dka400 -fl 0" should > be sufficient. In fact, even though you've duplicated the exact > argument set used by d-i, -fl 0 is preferred because some versions of > SRM have a limit on the length of the flag string. This may be the > problem here, since 08:02 is not the correct inode for a ramdisk. > > > Then I got this error: > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02 > > > Please append correct "root=" boot option > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 > > -- > Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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