Re: Bad Debian/Alpha potato rescue floppy image?
In message <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003251247010.25949-101000@eriador.mirkwood.net> you wrote:
>I recently decided to install Debian potato on my Alpha system (Multia,
>aka UDB).
Please email debian-boot@lists.debian.org, not me personally. I don't have
an Alpha.
>After downloading the rescue image, though, I found that it
>didn't appear to work. At first, I attributed the problem to a bad
>floppy, so I tried other disks, which all showed the same problem. After
>sucessfully booting off a Slink disk, I figured the problem had to be the
>disk image.
>
>Oddly enough, I could read the image from Linux (the system currently runs
>Redhat 5.2), but an ls from MILO just gave me some % and /s, as well as
>failing to boot. So I made a new image, copying the files from the
>original image (I also uncompressed vmzlinux.gz, to make sure the gzipped
>kernel wasn't bad. After recompressing with -9, I found that I had saved
>two bytes.), and wrote it to floppy. MILO booted the floppy without a
>problem.
Well, I've forwarded this to the list for comment by Alpha porters.
>Attached to this email is the new rescue image for potato (Alpha). You
>should find that everything is the same - even the kernel, when
>uncompressed, should match the kernel on your original rescue disk.
Why send that?
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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