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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