On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:16:16PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > 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 One thing that seems to be inconsistent here -- the boot/i386/syslinux.cfg settings use 'root=/dev/rd/0' as opposed to 'root=/dev/ram'. Is there some reason one should be preferred over the other? I believe that both should work, but assume that if there's a reason to use one over the other, it would apply equally to all platforms. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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