Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:

> OK, sounds good.  How should I got about creating the partition?  I had
> created one partition occupying the full drive (about @GB) in FAT and copied
> on a downloaded generic.gz in hope of getting that to boot before I knew
> that the problem is with the ramdisk.  I can hose this partition, I just
> need to know how I should go about repartitioning it so tat it works with
> rawrite.  Thanks again everyone for all your help!

Just use disk administrator from NT. Create a 2MB partition, no need to
format it.

--rdp
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Foley" <Mike.Foley@alpha-processor.com>
> To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:10 AM
> Subject: RE: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console
> 
> 
> 
> I already mentioned this to Rich. (he's in the lab right
> now) This is for everyone else.
> 
> Rawrite is just a dos app. That'll get handled by the
> built-in 286 emulator in Alpha NT. FX!32 is for Win32
> apps primarily. Although it has some 386 emulation in
> it, it doesn't allow you to run dos 386 apps. (of which
> there aren't a hell of alot. I can think of Phar Lap off
> the top of my head??)
> 
> So, rawrite away.
> 
> mike
> looking forward to playing
> with Alpha Red Hat 6.1 soon.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:56 AM
> To: Matthew Monacelli
> Subject: Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:
> 
> > OK.  Now which ramdisk.img can/should I use (internet address?).  Also, I
> > have an x86 with Linux installed, might I have better luch writing the
> image
> > from there?  Only problem is I don't have a SCSI controller on the x86, I
> > might have to bring the drive to a friends unless there is a way to access
> > the drive accross my LAN when it is still connected to the UDB.  Hmm, it's
> a
> > thinker.  Any other ideas?
> 
> ftp://emperor.alpha-processor.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.0/images/alpha/ramdis
> k.img
> 
> that image should work.
> 
> Just use the rawrite from NT, that might work. Does rawrite work under
> Alpha NT? anybody? need FX!32?
> 
> --rdp
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rich Payne" <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
> > To: "Matthew Monacelli" <nestle579@hotmail.com>
> > Cc: <axp-list@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:43 AM
> > Subject: Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:
> >
> > > I thought I made it quite clear that I do not have a floppy drive.  Is
> > there
> > > a way to extract the ramdisk floppy image to the external hard drive?
> >
> > You did, my appologies for not reading the entire message, my fault.
> >
> > In theory I guess you could make a partition on the harddisk, rawrite the
> > image file to the partition (using rawrite under NT, will it let you
> > rawrite to a HDisk partition?), and then pass Linux the HDisk parition as
> > the root fs, you'll still need the load_ramdisk=1 line.
> >
> > worth a try I guess.
> >
> > --rdp
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rich Payne" <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
> > > To: "Matthew Monacelli" <nestle579@hotmail.com>
> > > Cc: "axp-list" <axp-list@redhat.com>; <recipient list not shown: ;>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:28 AM
> > > Subject: Re: UDB RH6.0 CD install problems with initial console
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Matthew Monacelli wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello all.  I have a Multia 166 and a SCSI CDROM and two SCSI HD's
> (9GB
> > > and
> > > > 2GB).  The 2GB is blank and I have installed NT4 Server on the 9GB
> drive
> > > > since I couldn't get Linux going right away.  I got as far as booting
> > the
> > > > kernel (generic.gz) and it finds the SCSI devices, video, etc (even
> with
> > > the
> > > > Tux graphic) until I get the "Warning: Unable to open initial console"
> > > error
> > > > mesage.  All I can do from there is 3-finger solute back toMILO (which
> I
> > > am
> > > > starting from ARC).  I have been searching through the list archive
> > trying
> > > > to find a solution but all I can find is "use the floppies".  Well, I
> > > don't
> > > > have a floppy drive so that doesn't work for me.  The 2GB HD is
> totally
> > > open
> > > > to putting anything on it that would allow to me to install RH6.0.
> Any
> > > help
> > > > is very much appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Use a floppy as the ramdisk instead of the CD. This should allow you to
> > > install.
> > >
> > > --rdp
> > >
> > > > Matt Monacelli
> > > >
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> > >
> >
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