On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:57:05PM +1000, Samad, Alex wrote: > Just got my hands on a es45 would like to install debian sarge3.1. I am > new to alpha. > I have downloaded the latest install cd. I have got my serial console > connected to the box - on serial 2 > I have placed the cd in the cdrive and ran from the srm prompt I am > presuming > boot DVA0 -flags 0 > its says it start to load, but I don't see any thing on the > console....... -flags 0 will tell the installer CD to send console output to a VGA console. The sarge install CD supports -flags 1 for console=ttyS0, and -flags 2 for console=ttyS1. If "serial 2" refers to ttyS2, you'd need to specify the full list of kernel parameters when booting, e.g.: boot DVA0 -fl "boot/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 console=ttyS2" Not sure if that works, some models of alphas do have limits on the length of the boot_flags variable. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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