On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:27:30PM -0800, phusg wrote: > Harmon Seaver wrote: > >>As of two days ago, the debian-installer svn tree has been switched to use > >>Linux 2.6.15 exclusively on alpha, instead of the previous 2.4.27. This > >>means that with the most recent daily builds, all installer images for > alpha > >>are using 2.6 kernels *only*, and the current plan is that d-i beta2 will > be > >>the same. If you haven't tried 2.6 on your alpha yet, now would be a good > >>time so you can let us know if it doesn't work before we drop 2.4 for etch > >>completely. > >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > >>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso > >>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-businesscard.iso > >>http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/alpha/daily/ > > Well, this doesn't boot on mulitas. Not on mine, at least, and it's > > got 256mb ram, if that makes any difference. I sure wish this problem > > would get fixed in future releases. > I'd love this too. I've got a multia (or three!) lined up and waiting for a > Debian stable installation, but I can't boot off the sarge install CD. I do > get a couple of soft errors when reading from my SCSI CDROM before aboot > kicks off, but it only hangs when aboot starts the kernel with arguments... > My multia has 64MB ram if that makes a difference. > Also I'd prefer a CD image as my DHCP server isn't set up for BOOTP/TFTP > ethernet installation (or whatever) I only have samba shares ;-) Well, I'm afraid I'm just about done putting time into this issue unless someone can give me a pointer to where the problem is, or donate a Multia to me to work on directly; there's just too much ground to cover, with *both* kernel updates *and* aboot updates breaking the images, for me to try to sort it out when I don't have one of these boxes at hand. > Also it would be great if the milo images could be included again. This can only happen if someone steps forward to maintain a milo package for Debian, which, because MILO is derived from the Linux kernel and therefore covered under the GPL, means getting MILO to build from source on a modern Debian system. I don't have any Alpha kit that's using ARC, so I'm not interested in doing this; if I'm going to play around with dead code from my youth, I'd rather it be em86. :) > I also have an XLT which doesn't have SRM that I'm trying to install Linux > on. The furthest I've got is installing woody but then upgrading the > kernel (to 2.4 or 2.6) doesn't work for me (although this could likely be > my incompetence). I have no experience with the XLT. The usual problem reported with newer kernels not booting is the LEGACY_START_ADDRESS setting, but google suggests that the XLT is one of the systems for which this setting *needs* to be enabled, so it wouldn't be that. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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