> 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.
Did you let the mandrake install format the partition? If so, then
please check
with "tune2fs -l /dev/sda2" (or whatever device you installed it on)
If it says:
Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super
Then it probably can't read from the disk. Milo (in my case) and aboot
(in
you case?) can't read from drives formatted with the sparse_super
feature.
When I installed mandrake on my system (PWS, Qlogic, alphabios), I
formatted
the partition in advance with "-b 1024 -O none" as parameter to mke2fs.
> 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.
Stefan van der Eijk
