Can you give us the exact message from SRM? Also, when you partitioned the disks, did you use BSD disklabels? If I remember correctly, DarkHelmet will not change an existing DOS disklabel to BSD, but if the disk is clean it will write a BSD label. SRM needs a BSD disklabel to boot.
There's more info in the SRM Howto: http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/srm.html --rdp On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, JOHNSTONE,IAIN (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote: > 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 > > > -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
