[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> 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.

maybe aboot wasn't installed. Did you leave some free space at the beginning of
the drive?

> I tried to boot from the cdrom
> (as they suggest) and I get a kernel stack overflow (overflow error=2)? 

sigh... known bug though. don't know how to fix this (and hard to test, needing
burning each time)

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