Re: Alpha 1000 redhat installation problem

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

The only thing that stands out at me is:

loadramdisk=1 should be load_ramdisk=1

At least I've never seen it used w/o the underscore before.

--rdp

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Goonetilleke,  Anthony wrote:

> I am new to this list and the world of Alphas so please excuse my
> ignorance..
> 
> I am trying to install Redhat 6 on an Alpha 1000 4/200
> I have upgraded the firmware to the latest version V5.3-89
> and I have made the two disks from the image directory kernel.img and
> ramdisk.img.
> When I issue the following command at the prompt
> 
> >>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 loadramdisk=1"
> 
> It gets a fair way through and then I get the error
> 
> halted CPU 0
> halt code =6
> double error halt
> PC = fffffc000031bc4c
> 
> 
> I also tried creating a Milo disk and then booting the kernel disk but
> without any luck.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> regards,
> Anthony
> 
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Rich Payne
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