I grabbed the ISO for Mandrake
7.0 for Alpha and installed it last night. The easiest install I have ever
had on my Alpha. Plus, It actually worked! (the installer, that is). I have
run into a small problem - just curious to see if anyone else has experienced
this too. After the install, (PWS433a/au, Qlogic, SRM) when I go to boot,
aboot loads fine but cannot read from my harddrive. I didn't change my
partitioning and I had set up BSD disklabels using fdisk from Redhat 5.2
before I installed Mandrake. I did reformat my swap (sda4) and / (sda2)
partitions. Aboot cannot mount my harddrive. I tried to boot from the cdrom
(as they suggest) and I get a kernel stack overflow (overflow error=2)? Any
ideas on what has happened that aboot can't mount my partition? I'm just
curious on the stack overflow from the cdrom (/boot/v.gz on the cdrom the
command being: boot dka0 -fi /boot/v.gz -fl "root=/dev/sda2")
Any assistance would be great.
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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
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