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Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]



Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> writes:

> From: Andrew Forgue <forgue@ltu.edu>
> Subject: Alpha Debian Netinst
> To: mckinstry@debian.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:32:49 -0500
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any Ideas?  Otherwise I guess it doesn't work... *shrug*
> ----------

The correct line would be:

0:boot/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall

and similar for the other numbers.

Raphael Hertzog please change debian-cd to use those settings
too. (are you using root.bin or initrd.gz?)

MfG
        Goswin



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