Re: Install RH5.2 on PWS500au (miata)

[larrys lexis-nexis com (Larry Snyder)]

Add root=/dev/fd0 to your bootflags
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Peter Petrakis <peterpan@wn.net> wrote:
> 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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