Re: Installing linux on axp150

[Holger van Koll <holger vankoll de>]

One more experience from me:

If you got any floppy-related error, try again and again and again...
If that wont help, reboot, try again and again...
If that wont help, switch your floppy-environment from 1 to 2 ,
reboot...

Many times I wondered why copyboot.exe does not work.
Then I tried it again and again and at the fifth attempt it worked.

Then I was one step further: I could boot the "install-kernel". I was
prompted to inserted the ramdisk;
put it in, kernel-oops.
Tried again, same; tried again, read error on one sector.

Tried...

Then it read the disk. Now it hangs at that "vfs mounted root" or
similar.

I tried different floppydisks from different vendors and noticed no
differences.

The floppy workes without any problems when tru64 is booted. The
srm-bios seems to be buggy.


Bill Dewey wrote:
> 
> I agree, Michael.  Folks have pointed me to tons of info on the net and I
> have still not "made it work".  The machine now just sits as an NT file
> server, not the worst use for the $20 it cost me :-).
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Champigny, Michael <Michael.Champigny@compaq.com>
> To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 6:24 AM
> Subject: RE: Installing linux on axp150
> 
> > > It works now; I spent hours for something that sounds like a FAQ.
> >
> > Only hours? ;-) I spent a couple of weeks and got so desperate I offered
> > a $ reward for a solution. Given that so many people seem to have Jensens
> > now it's too bad there isn't a nice write up on exactly how to install
> > on it. If I pull it out of the closet this summer I will give it another
> > go. Last successful install I had was 6.0 and bits and pieces of 6.1. It
> > is, in my opinion, the hardest Alpha to install Linux on by far.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Michael
> >
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