Re: Alpha boot problems.

[Mike Smorul <toaster umiacs umd edu>]

The vmlinuz file is prolly a compressed kernel, you can tell it to boot off an 
uncompressed kernel, or a partion w/ aboot or the like installed on it.

-Mike

> BCC Again. on Alpha 2100 A500MP.
> Loaded Redhat 6.2
> > boot dka600 -fi /Kernels/generic.gz -fl root=/dev/scd0
> 
> Did a custom install and partitioned sda1 root "/"
> sda5 "swap"
> sdb1 /home
> 
> It all looked good as it installed ...
> Now we are trying to boot with boot cmd:
> > boot dkb0 -file 1/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.0 -flags "root=/dev/sda1" 
> 
> (following redhat 6.2 manual - page chap.8, booting machine post
> installation setup - Alpha / SRM post install" )
> 
> Bootstrap failure  ... tried many diff combinations.  
> Does this mean anything when we are at the >>> prompt
> cms.  >>> SHOW | more
> boot_dev = dkb0.0.0.0.6.0 
> boot_file = (blank)
> BOot_osflags = 0
> boot_reset = on
> bootdef_dev = dkb0.0.0.6.0
> booted_dev = (blank)
> booted_file = blank
> booted_osflags = (blank)
> 
> Not sure is this helps... we are still determined
> 
> Seth Garnar
> Computing Resources
> 
> 
> 
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