Re: Multia Boot failure for RH5.2

[Jonathan Pennington <jwp awod com>]

I had that same problem. it turned out that rawrite made a bad disk.
have you tried redoing the ramdisk on a different diskette. It's at
least worth a shot.


Jason Ball wrote:
> 
> How do,
> 
> I am having some problems getting my Multia to boot Redhat/Alpha 5.2.  Up
> until a recent hard disk crash this machine was running RH4.2 happily so I
> know the machine works.
> 
> I successfully load the noname milo image, however when trying to load the
> kernel with a
>         boot floppy
> or a
>         boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> 
> The system then tries to access the boot floppy, immediately fails
> with a 'fatal error: not enough memory', and locks up the milo
> console.

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