Re: Debian on a Alphaserver 1200
On Mon Aug 16 04 at 10:19:41AM, Angelo Machils wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm totally new on Alpha, but I got this Alphaserver 1200 (one CPU
> version) and I'm trying to install Debian on it. But after the reboot
> when I give the command "boot dka500 -flags 0" it returns with the
> following error-message:
> * dka500.5.0.1.1 has no media present or is disabled via the RUN/STOP
> switch (this message 4 times)
> * failed to open dka500.5.0.1.1
>
Try
boot dka0 -flags 0
On mine dka0 to dka3 are the 4 disk drives and dka5 is the cdrom.
dka0 should tell it to boot from the first disk which you should have
installed Linux to.
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