Re: Alpha boot problems.

[James Fowler <santiago eng utah edu>]

Did you load aboot on the harddrive?  You have to use the swriteboot
command. I don't have it exactly, although it is available many places,
e.g. www.alphalinux.org.  Without aboot, there is no way to boot into
linux.  aboot is the boot strap for linux on alpha.  Make certain that you
have installed it.  The aboot software can be found at
ftp.alphalinux.org/pub/Linux-Alpha/aboot

James



 On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Seth Garnar wrote:

> 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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