installation problems - Help will be appreciated

[Jay Estabrook]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:30:57AM +0200, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
> 
>   Fedora Installation problems on a Alpha Station 600 5/233.
> 
>   >boot dka400 -fi "kernels/vmlinux.gz" -fl "root=/dev/scd0"
> 
>   Jumping to bootstrap code.
>   aboot : Linux/alpha SRM boot loader version 0.9b
>   aboot : Switching to OSF/1 PAL code version 1.22
>   aboot : booting from device "scsi 0 1001 0 4 400 0 0"
>   
>   iso    : Max size 307827 logzone size : 2048
>   iso    : First datazone : 28  Root inode number 57344
>   aboot  : loading compressed kernels/vmlinux.gz"
>   aboot  : zero filling 335640 bytes at ................ (Some HEX values)
>   aboot  : starting kernel kernels/vmlinux.gz with arguments root=/dev/scd0
>    (last message on the screen)
> 
>   Afterwards nothing happens.No messages nothing.
> 
>    Has any one installed on a similar machine? What is wrong here?
>    Any help or suggestion will be appreciated.

I'm suspecting that you might have an original TGA in there; my
original "Testing Results" posting DID mention that original TGA
cards (PBXGA-AA/BA/CA) would NOT work, since the AC-0.9 kernel
is not configured with that driver.

I did just try an old S3 Trio64 in my AS600 5/266, and it worked fine
in "text" mode.

Good luck.

 --Jay++

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