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Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]



On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:33:33PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> A report that was forwarded to me; I am updating the ports-status
> page with details on submitting reports the offical way.

Content-Description: Forwarded message - Alpha Debian Netinst
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:32:49 -0500
> From: Andrew Forgue <forgue@ltu.edu>
> Subject: Alpha Debian Netinst
> To: mckinstry@debian.org

> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

> It says on that page to report any installations to you.

> Well, I'm trying the "sarge-alpha-netinst.iso" from testing (both 
> daily and non-daily) on an alpha PWS 500au with 128mb ram using 
> aboot/SRM and so far am unsuccessful.  It dies while trying to mount 
> /dev/rd/0.  If I tell it to use /dev/ram0 as a root, it says it can't 
> find init.  If I pass init=/linurc to the kernel, it still says no 
> init found.  So I'm slowly hopefully getting there.

> I don't have a full dump of the boot process, otherwise I'd dump it to you.

Last I checked, the ramdisk size for alpha had to be bumped to 16384
(ramdisk_size=16384 on the boot line) for this to work.  I don't know
who committed the aboot.conf currently in CVS, but it seems to have been
copied directly from b-f with no actual testing.  If the
sarge-alpha-netinst.iso is being built with that aboot.conf, this may
explain the above errors.

I also don't know why this aboot.conf still has references to jensen as
a subarchitecture.  I haven't found any 2.4 jensen kernels in the
archive, and everything I've found from debian-alpha suggests that there
are no longer separate kernels for any architectures.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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