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Installing Sarge on Alpha



Hello,

I tried to install Sarge on an Alpha (Personal Workstation 500a), but the installation process failed.

Details:
The installation process hangs on:
  Loading module 'qlogicisp' for 'Q Logic ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI' ...
This is the 3'th (or 4'th) step (after selecting the language, country and
keyboard layout)

I first tried to boot from ISO-images made by jigdo-0.7.1
  jigdo='http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/alpha/sarge-alpha-*.jigdo'
  debianMirror='http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/'
I assume this uses the new Debian-Installer (beta 4)?

Next, I used the 'current' "CD image, with Debian base" from
  http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current
(Date: 19-Jul-2004 22:21)

Both methods failed at the exact same spot.
Result: the system hangs.
Note: the system has a 'ISP1040 Scsi Controller'
  (== PCI card with QLogic 1040B Wide Ultra SCSI Adapter)


Remark:
  RedHat 7.2 for Alpha installs without problems, i.e. the system is fully
  operational.


System:
  Digital "Personal Workstation 500a"
  SRM Console:  V6.2-1
  ARC Console:  5.70
  SROM Version: v5.90

  Processor:
  DECchip (tm) 21164A-2  500 MHZ, 96 KBytes SCache
  2 MB BCache
  PYXIS ASIC Pass 257

  Memory: 256MB (2x 128MB banks, 4 DIMMs)

  PCI BUS:
  Bus 00 Slot 03: Digital Semicondutor 21143 Network Controller
  Bus 00 Slot 04: PCI IDE
                    --> Toshiba CD-ROM XM-61
  Bus 00 Slot 07: Intel Sio 82378
  Bus 00 Slot 12: Matrox Millenium
  Bus 00 Slot 20: DECchip 21152 PCI to PCI Bridge
  Bus 01 Slot 00: ISP1040 Scsi Controller
                    --> SCSI Bus IS 7
                    --> RZ1CC-BA
                    --> RZ1CC-BA

  ISA
  Slot 0 Device 0   MOUSE    Enabled   Base=60   IRQ=12
  Slot 0 Device 1   KBD      Enabled   Base=60   IRQ=1
  Slot 0 Device 2   COM1     Enabled   Base=3f8  IRQ=4
  Slot 0 Device 3   COM2     Enabled   Base=2f8  IRQ=3
  Slot 0 Device 4   LPT1     Enabled   Base=3bc  IRQ=7
  Slot 0 Device 5   FLOPPY   Enabled   Base=3f0  IRQ=6    DMA=2
  Slot 0 Device 6   EIDE     Enabled   Base=1f0  IRQ=14
                                       Base=3f6  IRQ=15
                                       Base=170
                                       Base=376
  Slot 0 Device 7   ES1888   Enabled   Base=220  IRQ=5    DMA=1,5




Regards,

Kris Demuynck



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