The reason for the problem with your Matrox M2 in the SRM is because of its
bios and how it needs to pass information from the video bios. There have
been quite a few postings about this on the redhat alpha list. I'm certain
that it is in the archives. I believe that the same problem still exists for
the Voodoo also. To be certain you would want to check the archives.
How did you get console on your alpha during the Mandrake install? If I kill
X then the install exits. I cannot get it to boot succesfully and pass ANY
variables to the kernel. I don't have any serial equipment to be able to get
a serial console. Sorry to be so problematic. I think that your solution
would work for me if I could figure out that part.
Thanks,
james
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James Fowler
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Arizona State University
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> > How did you format the drive ahead of time?
> I didn't.
>
> During the installation, I let it format the drives. Then, B4 letting
> him install,
> I went to the console, and did a mke2fs /dev/sda2 -b 1024 -O none . This
> formats
> the partition the way I want to have it. I then aborted the installation
> and
> started again. This time I didn't let mandrake format /dev/sda2. It
> worked for me.
>
> If you try to format the drive B4 the mandrake installer formats it, the
> /dev/sda2
> entries might not be there.
>
> > 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?
> 1) I've always used it, and haven't had major issues with it.
> 2) SRM complains about an "unknown / illegal device in slot 5" which is
> my Matrox
> M2.
>
> > 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.
> I'd like to try SRM, but don't know how to solve the prob. with my VGA
> card. Do
> you have any idea if for instance a Voodoo 3 3000 does work?
>
> > 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.
i> Please try the method I mentioned above & let me know how it goes... It
> worked
> for me (did it on saturday).
>
> Stefan
>
>
