Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]
Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:
> 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.
Afaik jensen is the last arch that needs its own kernel. We realy need
someone with a jensen to confirm or deny.
Also all the other flavours need a confirm or deny. The coming milo
udebs need testing for flavours without srm.
MfG
Goswin
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