How did you format the drive ahead of time? I have tried formatting using a
redhat text install to get a shell. It doesn't let me format it. It was
formated by DrakX(the installer?) as a supersparse. Why are you using milo and
the alphbios instead of the SRM? The alphabios takes longer to boot and the
PAL code isn't updated like it is for the SRM. Just curious why you chose it.
Is there any way to get the drive set so that aboot can read it and so that
the installer will work.
I forgot to mention from above that after I formated using redhat's format
from their installer (which will work with aboot), the Mandrake installer
cannot mount /mnt/var/?/rpm/? (I can't remember the path exactly - if
necessary I can get it again) and gets stuck in a loop returning to the
package selector again. Any ideas? Thanks.
James
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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> > 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
>
>
