Re: what can I do for debian installer for Alpha?
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On Oct 18, Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote:
> Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Hi, I have an Alpha machine (XP1000) currently running woody. I'd
> > like to be of some help in getting the new installer working
> > properly on this architecture. How can I best do that? Is now a
> > good time to get involved, or is it still too early?
>
> Do you have an SRM console? Do you boot aboot or milo?
SRM, aboot
> If its SRM (which means you can be using aboot) try one of:
>
> rsync -avP mrvn.homeip.net::debian-installer/latest/alpha/
OK, I did this, got different errors. I'll look into it a bit myself, then
send on the messages if I cannot figure it out quickly.
> Milo support is not yet done due to the lack of milo udebs. You could
> try to build a milo and debianize the source. I tried and couldn't get
> it to work properly.
>
> > I think I have enough time to do test installs and more debugging of
> > problems I encounter than Joe Average user, but I am not at all
> > familiar with how the installer works. It's easy for me to create
> > an install CD using jigdo. I've done that already. Installing with
> > it did not get far. Should I just start posting messages about the
> > problems I encounter to this list, or file bugs, or both?
>
> At the moment I would like to know if the cds boot at all. If they do
> and installation report is welcome. You will probably encounter errors
> related to whats on the CDs, like suport for scsi is missing or
> similar. Just tell the list or me to get it added.
It booted, but died very early, while trying to mount the ramdisk, rd/0. (If
this sounds familiar, it's because I posted it to debian-alpha.) Any ideas?
I'm still looking into this one.
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384k size 1024k blocksize
.
.
.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 2249k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> On the other hand if you find a bug in a specific module like
> base-installer fails silently better report it as bug against the
> package, which will end up here too but you get a notice when the bug
> is closed.
OK, thanks.
--
Neil Roeth
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