On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:31:43AM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > As the topic says I have an AlphaServer 1000A and am trying to install > Debian on it. A few seconds and screen flickers after it starts booting > the kernel from the rescue image I get kicked back to SRM with the error: > > halt code = 6 > double error halt > PC = fffffc000031b24c > > I've tried Debian 2.1 and 2.2 and a few other distributions just to be > thorough and they all do the same thing. I am new to the Alpha > architecture so this maybe not be a Linux specific issue but since the > box is currently running Tru64 and had NT on it at one point so I don't > think it's a hardware problem. I have updated the SRM firmware to 5.7 and > ARC is 4.59 which had no effect. > > Basically the hardware in the box is a Mylex DAC960(all the drives on on > this RAID controller), QLogic ISP10x0(cdrom is on here), DE500-BA NIC, S3 > Trio64/Trio32 PCI Video(on-board LISA video is disabled), 128M memory. > > Any help you could give me would be great, if you need anymore > information let me know, just please specify where to find it =)
Hello, I had the same problem ... and Jay Estabrook helped to me, and possibly you. Try image from: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/TESTING/up-2.2.17-pre12-15jul/ He made patches for this alpha. They are now included in 2.2.17pre13 if you want to compile your own kernel ... I think, this will help :-) Good luck. -- /\ Tomas Macak / \ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage: http://www.tuke.sk/tmacak/ / \ / \ One glimpse is not enough. /________\ -- Sogjal Rinpoche
