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

["John S. Robinson" <jsrobin home com>]

Phillip,
	The Firmware is version 5.4 (For the AlphaServer 800, the date is March
1999). I have
not tried 5.5 (August 99) yet. Will do that today.
	John

Phillip Ezolt wrote:
> 
> John,
>         Also, make sure that you have the latest and greatest firmware.
> 
> --Phil
> 
> Compaq: Business Critical Servers Division/Benchmark Performance Engineering
> ---------------- Alpha, The Fastest Processor on Earth --------------------
> Phillip.Ezolt@compaq.com        |C|O|M|P|A|Q|        ezolt@perf.zko.dec.com
> 
> 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.
> > >
> > > -- g
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