RE: Alpha 1000 redhat installation problem (half SUMMARY)

["Goonetilleke, Anthony" <AGooneti pacificaccess com au>]

It might be of interest to all the people who replied to me that although I
had kernel halting problems on the Alpha Server 1000 4/200 when installing
Redhat 6.0, I switched over to debian and it worked first time without any
problems.

regards,
 Anthony
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Anthony M. Goonetilleke (Systems/Unix)
mailto:agooneti@pacificaccess.com.au
PH: +61 3 9835 0046
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
268 Canterbury Rd, Surrey Hills   VIC 3127, AU



>-----Original Message-----
>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