Debian/sarge installer on an AlphaStation 600 5/333

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

Hi,

When I try to boot the Debian/sarge installer from a CD-ROM on an
AlphaStation 5, I get only the following messages and then the systems
appears to hang (no console output, no cd-rom activity):

 >>> boot dka600 -fl 0
   ...
 aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9b
   :
 aboot: no disklabel found.
 iso: Max size:78331   Log zone size:2048
 iso: First datazone:36   Root inode number 73728
 aboot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz...
 aboot: loading compressed boot boot/vmlinuz...
 aboot: zero-filling 407488 bytes at 0xfffffc00000571710
 aboot: loading initrd (2929480 bytes/2860 blocks) at 0xfffffc0007b30000
 aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384  root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall

The Debian/potato installer boots fine from CD-ROM, however, so it
looks to me like a kernel problem.  Is the sarge installer supposed to
work on such an old system?

Thanks,

	--david