Re: Install RH5.2 on PWS500au (miata)

[Peter Petrakis <peterpan wn net>]

Hi Andy,
    Check your termination on your scsi devices especialy if you have a scsi cd-rom
and enable pci parity checking. If all that checks out and it still doesn't boot
you can try changing your firmware to either the ARC or Alphabios and try again.
Low level format the HD if you think that'll help but I doubt it.Good luck.

Alpha Powered,
Peter Petrakis


Andy Kahn wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i'm trying to install Linux for the first time on an Alpha based
> system (specifically, a PWS500au).  i went to one of the Redhat
> mirror sites and grabbed two images: miata-s.img and ramdisk.img.
> after making the floppies, i booted the first floppy from SRM
> with this command:
>
>         >>>b -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
>
> the kernel starts up, appears to detect my devices (scsi controller,
> disks, cdrom, network card, etc), but then does:
>
> Partition check:
>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda7 sda8
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT0, check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> kernel: unalisnged trap at fffffc0000392f58: fffffc000bff2811 29 1
> [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=42949672951
> Transaction block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
>
> it looks like the kernel thinks there are filesystems existing on the
> disk itself, and tries to mount it...?  i was never prompted for the
> ramdisk, which i thought was kind of odd.
>
> does someone know what's going on here?  what am i missing?
>
> thanks,
> --andy
>
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