Re: Sarge Installer Kernel Hangs on Alphastation 200

["gl@decadence.it" <gl@decadence.it>]

On 01/10/2006 21:28:43, Brian D. Pitts wrote:
> I'm trying to boot the debian-31r3-alpha-binary-1 CD on an
> Alphastation 200 with firmware version 7. Aboot prints the following  
> messages, then the kernel hangs.
>
> boot dka4 -flags 0
> ...
> loading compressed boot/vmlinuz
> loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz
> zero-filling 407760 bytes at 0xfffffc0000571900
> loading init.d (2940211 bytes / 2871 blocks) at 0xfffffc12000
> starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384
> root=/dev/ram
> devfs=mount,dall

This kind of problems usually is related to DMA handling on bugged  
chipsets (the CMD64x, among others)
You should try booting with "ide=nodma" flag.
Boot the CDROM with "-flag i" then boot the kernel with "ide=nodma".
Let me know if it works.

Bye
gl