Re: Debian on a Alphaserver 1200

[Angelo Machils <angelus@sangreal.demon.nl>]

Hello!

Booting from the disk would be in order after I am able to install linux, which I
haven't been able to do yet :) That is why I need to boot from the CD, which is the
netinstl CD....

Greetings, Angelo

Lyndsay Roger wrote:

> On Mon Aug 16 04 at 11:59:37AM, Angelo Machils wrote:
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> > Hello!
> >
> > polling ncr0 (NCR 53C810) slot 1, bus 0 PCI, hose 1 SCSI bus ID 7
> > dka500.5.0.1.1    DKA500       RRD46         1337
> > polling isp0 (QLogic ISP0X0) slot 2, bus 0 PCI, hose 1 SCSI bus ID 7
> > dkb0.0.0.2.1      DKB0         COMPAQ BD01864552  3B07
> > dkb100.1.0.2.1    DKB100       COMPAQ BD01864552  3B07
> > dkb200.2.0.2.1    DKB200       COMPAQ BD0186349B  3B11
> > dkb200.3.0.2.1    DKB300       COMPAQ BD0186349B  3B12
> > dkb200.4.0.2.1    DKB400       COMPAQ BD0186349B  3B12
> > polling floppy0 (FLOPPY) PCEB - XBUS hose 0
> > dva0.0.0.1000.0   DVA0         RX23
> > polling tulip0 (DECchip 21140-AA) slot 3, bus 0 PCI, hose 0 Starting 
> > Auto-Negotiate
> > ewa0: link up: Negotiated 10BaseT: full duplex
> > ewa0.0.0.3.0      00-00-F8-09-77-6D   Auto-Negotiate
> >    
>
> I see from this that you have 2 controllers so try
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> boot dkb0 -flags 0
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> and it may work. The disks are on the dkb controller and the cdrom is on dka.
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