Re: HELP -- RH6.0 and RH5.2 won't install on genric AlphaServer 800!

["Xiaozhou Qiu" <xq mars iol unh edu>]

Have  you tried the updated RH6 ramdisk image?

ftp://ftp.alphalinux.org/redhat/updates/redhat-6.0/images/ramdisk.img

Xiaozhou Qiu

http://www.iol.unh.edu/linux/alpha/
Linux Consortium
UNH

----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Robinson <jsrobin@home.com>
To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <lindahl@cs.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: HELP -- RH6.0 and RH5.2 won't install on genric AlphaServer
800!


> I have tried both loadramdisk=1 and load_ramdisk=1. Both have the same
> result.
> Redhad documentation uses loadramdisk and I think that unh.edu notes use
> load_ramdisk.
> Also, the file parameter was actually vmlinux.gz. Sorry for the
> misprint(corrected below)
>
> Greg Lindahl wrote:
> >
> > >  boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 loadramdisk=1"
> >
> > You left the _ out of load_ramdisk.
> >
> > >  VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
> >
> > Note that it asked for the root floppy, not the root ramdisk.
> >
> > I'm kind of surprised it didn't print anything like "panic: can't
> > mount root disk 0N:00" before the halt. Perhaps it did and you didn't
> > realize that message was important.
> >
> > -- g
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with
> > 'unsubscribe' as the subject.  Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with
> 'unsubscribe' as the subject.  Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com