Re: Install Alpha Linux

[Bruce <bembrey earthlink net>]

If you are sure sda6 is your root partition, try this command:

boot sda6:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda6

hope this helps

On Sun, 02 May 1999, Aron Skrypeck wrote:
> Hello,
> Any help appreciated.
> Installing RH 5.2 on Aspen Durango, 533MH PC 164 LX MB, SCSI hard drive
> and Jaz drive and CD ROM. 128 M ram. Win NT4, SP3 installed on first
> (5MB FAT) and second (2GB NTFS) partitions. Install Linux on partitions
> on last half of drive, ~2.2GB.
> Now completed four (count 'em, four!) attempts at installation, each
> time looking for what might have been missed earlier, none has been
> bootable.
> Come to the end of the installation, all packages installed, asks for
> the boot floppy and I put it in (lx164 image). It congratulates me on a
> successful installation, tells me to remove floppy and hit enter.
> Done.
> Nice shutdown, milo restarts, etc, but eventually the message comes up
> that the kernel cannot be found, and the milo prompt returns.
> Thus:
> ERROR: failed to open device 0x200 (result= -6)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 2/0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
> 
> MILO: unknown filesystem on fd
> MILO: Failed to load kernel
> MILO> boot sda6:vmlinux.gz
> 
> So I figure it just needs some help and type in the boot command,
> pointing to the root partition and the file vmlinux.gz--again, a nice
> opening, lots of messages running across the screen faster than I can
> read them all, ending in a kernel panic and dead machine.
> here is the last screen or so of messages:
> PPP line discipline registered
> Partition check:
>   sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 >
>   sdb: sdb4
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xb9,cs=23940,#f=191,fs=5450,fl=61110,ds=12052,de=1563,data=12178,se=80,ts=2080403000,ls=64543,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> Transaction block size = 512
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xb9,cs=23940,#f=191,fs=5450,fl=61110,ds=12052,de=1563,data=12178,se=80,ts=2080403000,ls=64543,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> Transaction block size = 512
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=1
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 08:02 iso_blknum 16 block 32
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
> 
> Perhaps I ought to know the significance of all this, but it is beyond
> me. I suspect there is something to do with the Jaz drive, but what?
> Suggestions? Yes, using the Milo and boot images from the CD for lx164,
> and could not find any that were newer than these. did try a recent test
> milo on the last go-round, no difference. also using the new ramdisk
> image from the RH errata page.
> Thanks in advance,
> Aron
> 
> 
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