aboot of 31r0a on multia - hangs (?) at kernel boot
I'm trying to boot off a SCSI-CDROM, have monitor & keyboard attached
directly (not serial) and SRM (BL5 V3.8-1 Jun 22 1995 18:10:45) is
running. I "boot dka200" and the CD comes up fine, "0" ("1" & "2" as well,
but they route the console to ttyS0 & ttyS1 respectively) begins the
booting process, but invariably stops at:
"aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384
root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall"
(the keyborad indicators flash once and the CD seems to be accessed)
I another thread it was suggested that the output may be routed to the
wrong console, but explicitly including "console=tty" or "console=tty0"
doesn't sove the problem.
Are there any SRM environment variables that might be responsible (the
multia has been experimented with for a long time, so they most certainly
aren't at factory settings anymore. It ran Red Hat once, but the disk
seems to have been wiped)?
Or am I missing something else entirely (I've never worked with an alpha
before)?
Yours,
Robert Kosten
PS: I tried the multia docs, alphalinux.org, the debian docs, the gentoo
docs (since gentoo has exactly the same problem) and google, of course,
but all these imply the kernel "just boots".
--
Eritis sicut Deus scientes bonum et malum.
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