On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > Package: debian-installer > (is this the right package?) > I'm using DHCP server to issue an Alpha LX164 machine with a netboot boot.img > file. The latest version (2004-08-09, MD5: 4591236ca7d3eb6daba4b0f133f947a6) > (and recent, previous versions) do not boot correctly as they failing to > mount the initrd image and so cause the kernel to panic. > The work-around is to issue a suitable kernel command-line at SRM prompt: > boot ewa0 -fl "root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw ramdisk_size=16384 > init=/linuxrc" > but this is somewhat unwieldy. > Can correct parameters be compiled into the alpha-install kernel, embedded > within the boot.img image? The correct parameters *are* embedded in the netboot image. Please check your boot_osflags setting; it is likely that you have a value set that is overriding the settings in the image. boot ewa0 -fl "" always works for me. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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