Re: Linux on a Sable

[Jay Estabrook digital com]

>>> "Ing. Ramon Solano Barajas" said:
> 
> I'm trying to install RedHat Linux 5.2 on a DEC AlphaServerAXP 2100 4/200.
> I've follow the installation steps but I don't have seccess. The boot was
> done using the image file, but no ask for the ramdisk was done, although a
> message was displayed showing the cration of such ramdisk. Then, the input
> file (-fi) sable-s.gz was not found, so I insert the "kernel" disk (the
> file under the kernel dir on the cd) and at last the machine boots. So far
> so good, but then the installation process ask for "insert the root floppy
> disk". I try with the ram disk, the boot and the kernel disks and also
> with a blank one. The process appears to hang after display a message like
> "unable to open a console". Anybody have some hint. I'll appreciate it
> very much.

The boot command should look like this:

  >>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0"

Note the double-quotes around the entire flags argument.

--Jay++

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