Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux

[Mohd Irfan R Khan]

Can u check for some digital Cards or cards which Is recognized in srm.
If that clicks than u can surely work without any thing extra required
for booting.

Regards,
Mohd. Irfan R Khan
M.C.S.E.
Sr. System Engineer.


On Tuesday 30 March 2004 14:07, Timothy Lin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got several Alphaserver 2100 that needs to be retrofitted with
newer
> scsi drives so I can put Linux on it as a cluster. The scsi card that
came
> with the machine is too old and doesn't seems to support newer scsi
> drives, so I tried to add adaptec 2940U2W series cards into them.
> However, the SRM bios can't see them but once I boot into Linux using
RH
> CD images, the drives are totally functional, which means I can't use
them
> as  bootdisks, and since the original drives from digital are mostly
> failing,  I need to rely on netboot to serve the boot images, then I
can
> access all the files on local disks.
>
> Can someone give me a few pointers on how to do it ?
> I've been googling for quite a few days and have yet to find anything
> helpful :(
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim.
>
>
>
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