Re: Jensen boot question/problem

[Sebastian Moeller <moeller s lur rwth-aachen de>]

Jo Schambach wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Forgive me if this has been answered before, but I just recently joined
> this list and haven't found an answer yet. Here is my problem:
> I used S. Moellers "jensen2.img" and "ramdisk2.img" to try to install
> Redhat Linux 6.0 on a Decstation 2000 Model 300 (aka Jensen). These
> images were the first ones that finally (after many tries before) at
> least through me into the install program. I then installed RH Linux,
> but now I am at a loss as to how to boot this installation. Here is what
> I have done so far, and if someone discovers a problem with my
> procedure, please comment:
> 
> 1) I "downgraded" the firmware to version 1.7
> 2) Used "minlabel.exe" from the ARC utilities to partition the one and
> only disk on this system (1GB) as follows:
>         - 8MB partition 1, type ext2
>         - 128MB partition 2, type swap
>         - Whole disk partition 3, type unused
>         - rest of disk partition 4, type ext2 (want this to be /)
> 3) Used copyboot.exe to copy S. Moellers jensen2.img to /dev/sda
> 4) Use supplementary menu to change back to OSF
> 5) >>> boot -fl i dka0
> 6) aboot> 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> 7) The kernel boots, asks for the ramdisk floppy (I used S. Moellers
> ramdisk2.img) and then throws me into the install program
> 8) I chose install from local CDROM, installation starts
> 9) Choose "Install" rather than "Upgrade"
> 10) Use disk druid to assign /dev/sda4 to "/" and /dev/sda2 to "swap"
Oops! At least till rh5.2 disk druid produced no reliable tool to
harddisk partitioning and filesystem assignment. One had to use fdisk
(for partitioning "fdisk -b" better would be minlabel).
> 11) Installation proceeds without problems except that Xconfigurator has
> problems with my graphics card (a COMPAQ QVision 1024, which I saw in
> one newsgroup is unsupported by Linux?)
Yep, this card is not supported for X at least not at the moment.
> 12) After the installation finishes, it shuts down the system to reboot,
> but just throws me back to aboot.
> 13) I thought that I should answer:
> 0/2.2.12.gz root=/dev/sda4
> (was that correct?).
Yes this is correct
> However, it then starts booting, does a few checks and fails on one of
> them:
> Finding module dependencies. Can't open
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep
I screwed up and forgot to use a monolithic kernel for the boot image.
It should pose no real problem though, I put up my /lib/modules/2.2.12
in lib-mod-2.2.12.tar.bz2 at my site. (If interested Tom please feel
free to put it up on your fine site.)
> It continued anyways, but then stopped after displaying the following
> message:
> 
> Starting portmapper. Warning: /boot/System.map has incorrect kernel
> version.
Well again my fault. Use the system.map-2.2.12 at my ftp site and put it
on "/" or /boot.
> Nothing else ever appeared on the screen.
> 
> Do you have any ideas what I am doing wrong now?
> THanks for all your help.               Jo
> 
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