RE: 3305 and RH6 boot problems

["Chris Cohen" <ccohen inmind com>]

Sooo, when I do this it asks me to put a "root disk" into the floppy drive
to be loaded into RAM.  Is this the ramdisk that I can create with rawrite?

chris cohen



-----Original Message-----
From: Xiaozhou Qiu [mailto:xq@mars.iol.unh.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:21 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: RE: 3305 and RH6 boot problems



I think the following boot command is what you need if you try to use the
generic image.

P00>>boot dka400 -fi kernels/generic.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"

Xiaozhou Qiu

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Chris Cohen wrote:

> Hey, Eric,
>
> Thanks, I tried this boot on the SRM command line:
>
> boot dka400 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"
>
> with my boot floppy and the CD in there.  At this point aboot: asked me
> where the kernel image was and was looking for it on the CD!!!.  I got all
> excited until I couldn't find anything on the CD that was called
vmlinux.gz
> (there's a generic.img and a bootlx file?)  So close?!?!?!?
>
> chris cohen
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ebinger . Eric [mailto:EEbinger@drc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 9:41 AM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: 3305 and RH6 boot problems
>
>
> I finally got RH6.0 to boot on my DS3305 by booting directly from
> the CD (booting from floppy did not work).  I used the commands for
> booting from CD that are in the Alpha Addendum.  (Sorry for not giving
> the boot command here, the manual is at home, I'm at work.)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Eric Ebinger
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris cohen [mailto:ccohen@inmind.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:12 PM
> > To: axp-list@redhat.com
> > Subject: 3305 and RH6 boot problems
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've used rawrite to create an SRM bootable disk for my box using the
> > generic kernel on the RH6 CD I have and am getting a strange
> > error.  I've
> > got a DS3305 which currently has NT on it.  It's got a Trio64
> > videocard and
> > no other special hardware, (no raid) all OEM.  When I follow the
> > instructions here (rawrite SRM boot disk):
> >
> > <http://www.digital.com/alphaserver/linux/install_guide.html>
> >
> > I get this error:
> >
> > halted CPU 0
> >
> > halt code = 5
> > HALT instruction executed
> > PC = fffffc0000310088
> > boot failure
> > >>>
> >
> > Following the above instructions this is what loads onto my
> > screen at boot
> > time:
> >
> > (boot dva0.0.0.1000.0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags root=/dev/hda)
> > block 0 of dva0.0.0.1000.0 is a valid boot block
> > reading 168 blocks from dva0
> > bootstrap code read in
> > Building FRU table
> > FRU table size = 0x982
> > base = 1d800, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 15000
> > initializing HWRPB at 2000
> > initializing page table...
> > initializing machine state
> > settting affinity to the primary cpu
> > jumping to bootstrap code
> > aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.5
> > aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.23
> > aboot: no disklabel found,
> > aboot: booted_dev='dva 0 1000 0 0 0 0 0', guessing boot_device='fd0'
> > aboot:loading compressed vmlinux.gz
> > aboot: ok, now starting the kernel...
> >
> > then the screen flashes/refreshes (actually turns from a blue
> > background to
> > black background) a lot of information most of what looks
> > like the kernel
> > probing the devices on my machine (this happens for about 3
> > seconds) I see
> > the hard disks I have and the fact that this appears to be a
> > Noritake board,
> > then back to the afore mentioned problem, namely....
> >
> > halted CPU 0
> >
> > halt code = 5
> > HALT instruction executed
> > PC = fffffc0000310088
> > boot failure
> > >>>
> >
> > Any suggestions?  I'm stumped.
> >
> > Waiting greatfully,
> >
> > Chris Cohen
> >
> >
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