Progress at last. I installed DarkHelmet in text mode an all went well. However when the machine reboots and when I point to the boot device I get error messages and it refused to boot ..... bad block device etc ..... I have checked the syntax a million times and I am convinced it is ok.
Anyone any thoughts? I'm becoming rather upset with Alphas ...... it only took me 2 days to master linux on Sparcs. Cheers Iain -----Original Message----- From: Christopher C. Chimelis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 September 2000 18:25 To: JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) Cc: [email protected]; Henry House Subject: RE: FrameBuffers On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote: > OK, Debian it is, just having problems getting hold of potato at the moment. Connection problems or is a mirror full? > Nothing was passed to the kernel on boot. AFAIK, you shouldn't need to pass anything special to the kernel for it to work. > I would like to hope that they are not too much hassle. I have a SparcUltra > 1 running RedHat that I would like to replace as my workstation with the AS > 1000A with my Voodoo3 running Debian and Gnome. I think/hope that it would > be a bit faster that the sparc (-: I'll take that sparc if you don't want it :-P (I've got three older sparcs already). Question on your problem, though...once it gets past SRM, is there ANY text echoed to the screen (ie. kernel messages) or is it just blank? I'm wondering if it's the kernel at fault or if it's something else. If the kernel text is showing, then that's one more thing we can probably eliminate. Also, if it's DarkHelmet...er...RedHat, then I believe they run the vga16 server for part of their install (please correct me if I'm wrong...it's been awhile since I played with RH), which may also have some problem dealing with the V3. C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
