Alphaserver 800 revisited

[Carl Lafferty <carl netins net>]

Thanks to everyone that helped me get to the SRM 
and start loading RedHat for this machine.  I have since
upgraded to the newest firmware (something that is 
spooky to me since I flashed an INTEL board doing 
something similar) and tried to mount from the images
provided in /images (generic.img and ramdisk.img) to
no avail.

I keep getting messages such as 

IDE Command not successfully terminated
ST0 = 40
missing address mark
IDE bad sector encountered or read unsuccessful
block 0 of dva0.0.1000.0 is not a valid boot block.

I have used dos rawrite to create the images on two or three
different brand new disks.

the command I issued from the SRM is 
boot dva0 -fi "vmlinux.gz" -fl "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"

after it gets through a series of the errors above, it does prompt me
to put in the root disk, which it starts to read
then sends me back to the srm telling me that it has encountered
a halt instruction for cpu 0

the site provided by Xiaozhou Qiu www.iol.unh.edu/linux/alpha
has helped greatly. but I find no information there to this particular
message.

As always, any help is appreciated!!


-- 
Carl Lafferty| carl@netins.net 
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