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Re: netboot alpha



On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:59:25PM +0200, Benoit wrote:
> 
> > Le mar 11/05/2004 à 06:47, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:39:04PM +0200, Benoit Peccatte wrote:
> > > > How can I get same file for an alpha ?
> > >
> > > An SRM-netbootable daily image for alpha is available at
> > > <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/>.
> 
> I just tried your boot image. It boots, but fails on mounting initrd.
> Here the error message :
> 
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 01:00: rw=0, want=12889, limit=8192
> VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02

> Does it mean the initrd is too big ?

What command did you give to SRM to tell it to netboot?  The aboot
options built into the image are correct for the size of the initrd; you
may want to try booting with 'boot ewa0 -fl ""' to avoid passing
any options to aboot that would override this.

Regards,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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