Semi-success with Jensen Installation...

["Champigny, Michael" <Michael Champigny compaq com>]

The problem I was having turned out to be the hard disk. For some reason,
my Jensen didn't like my 1GB Quantum Fireball. I put in a DEC 2GB drive
and the install went fine. Very strange since the Fireball works on an
XLT-300
and an AXPpci33. 

Anyway, I followed the install on Tom's recent website, and by following the
dialog on this list. I have nothing to add to that procedure, as it worked
fine.
I used the jensen2.img and the updated RH ramdisk.

My hardware is stock, with a DE422 EtherWorks and a #9 GXE video card.

I tried booting the default RH 6.0 kernel...

>>> boot -fl i dka0
...
aboot> 3/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-16 root=/dev/sda3

It gets to kswapd and then hangs. :-( Does anyone know why the generic
kernel shipped with Red Hat fails on the Jensen? It works on my other boxes.
:-(

I then copied the jensen3.img (static monolithic kernel image) onto the
beginning
of the disk and tried booting with that...

aboot> 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/sda3

Now it hangs while starting the portmapper daemon. Damn!

Finally, I got in using single user mode...

aboot> 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/sda3 single

At this point the clock was hosed. It looks like RH ships the fixed clock
(type 
"clock -h" and you'll see the -J Jensen option. The only change should be to
add a line to one of the rc* scripts in /etc/rc.d to add a "-J" option after
the
"-A" clock option. That *should* fix the Jensen clock but I had other fish
to fry.

I commented out all the daemon lines in the /etc/rc.d area. I rebooted and
managed
to get in this time in multi-user mode.

I did get warnings about System.map, but no big deal.

At this point was able to get X up and running. I used the S3 server, 8-bit
depth and
1024x768. Higher resolutions resulted in flicker and off-center display. I
tried out some
16-bit modes too but the pixels were "fat" on the display and generally
mangled. :-(
Also, when leaving X, the console display is completely screwed no matter
what mode
I exit from.

I had to add the option "nolinear" to get X going but otherwise KDE came up
fine.

So that's where I'm at. If anyone figures out how to get the stock RH kernel
working
in multi-user mode, I'd very much appreciate it. Please post it to the list
so everyone
benefits, and I'll let anyone know if I solve anything else.

/Michael