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

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

I installed a boot image from floppy to the beginning of
the hard drive. The drive was partitioned BSD style with
minlabel. I used copyboot to install the floppy image onto
device /dev/sda (beginning of disk). It claimed it was
successful (thus it's not a bad floppy or disk). The failure
I get is when I try to boot this image from SRM. To get to
aboot I try:

>>> boot -fl i dka000

Some startup messages, and then the aboot prompt:

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

Now this is *supposed* to load the image on /dev/sda and
prompt for the RH ramdisk. I get no disk activity that I
can hear/see and after a few seconds...

Unrecognized object file format ...
dummy_bread failed

unzip: failure

I can't even get to the ramdisk prompt. :-(

Thanks for any help,

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Bauske [mailto:wsb@paralleldata.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:16 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Sick of Jensen...will pay $$$ for good install...


"Champigny, Michael" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Might help if you tell me what your failure is. I don't
recall if you posted it previously. Does it load the
kernel at all from your HD? Still have to separate whether
you have the disk bootable from whether the kernel just
doesn't work on your system. Keep in mind the latest RH6.0
install requires a kernel with romfs support and if you're
using an older kernel, like from instructions like these
for the Jensen, it probably won't work.


Wes

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