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

[Phillip Ezolt <ezolt perf zko dec com>]

John,
	Also, make sure that you have the latest and greatest firmware. 

--Phil

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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, John S. Robinson wrote:

> 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.
> > 
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