Re: howto boot alpha via SRM without supported SCSI controller
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
> On Fre, 15 Okt 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> > aboot:
>> > ======
>> > - Put aboot and kernel on a floppy, boot from floppy
>> > this is working, but I am not a big friend of it.
>>
>> aboot and kernel on HD on onboard controller is another option.
>> That's how I boot my sx164.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to take this route, put a small IDE
> disk into the machine, and only get aboot, kernel and root-fs from
> there. Anyting else will be done from SCSI disks.
There is no problem having the root fs on the SCSI disks. Just pass
root=/dev/sdXX to the kernel.
>> > - Boot via network/bootp
>> > this doesn't work up to now, OTOH I want the alpha to be
>> > not dependent on another machine
>>
>> Have you tried booting with aboot over the network. It's worked for
>> me.
>
> Finally I got it to work using the fix from Ivan Kokshaysky.
> No I only need a SRM-bootp acceptable NIC for our second alpha ;-)
The Digital Tulip series usually work well (surprise). They are
getting rare these days, though.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
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