RE: Sick of Jensen...will pay $$$ for good install...

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

I did all of what you said, 20 times over and several
permutations of it. I followed Jim Paradis instructions to
the letter, as well as the instructions on www.alphalinux.org.
I also had about 5 different people so far offer methods that
have worked for them. There is nothing wrong with my hardware.
I've had NT running on the machine, and all drives, etc. have
been tested under Alpha/Linux on other Alpha boxes. I have 
written the boot sector of the disk as instructed including
the aboot/kernel combo at a 2 block offset. I have upgraded to
firmware 1.7. I fail at the point when I try to boot off the
hard drive.

aboot> 0/a root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

This is verbatim what it says on www.alphalinux.org. 

Thanks for the help though. I will keep at it as I have been.

/Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Bauske [mailto:wsb@paralleldata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 12:04 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Sick of Jensen...will pay $$$ for good install...


"Champigny, Michael" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My final plea for help...after almost 3 months of trying to install
> Linux on a Jensen, I'm at the end of my rope.
> 
> I will pay $50 cash to the first person to lead me to the first
> RH6.0 installation screen. I need the capability of booting off
> the harddrive. You can either arrange to stop by, mail me a
> floppy image which will work, or talk me through on the phone.

The howto says you'll never get a floppy install to work.

> This is probably a 10 minute job but I've wasted hundreds of
> hours of work on it already. The box is slow as molasses...it's
> the principle of the matter!!!
>