On an AlphaServer 1200, Debian woody runs fine but the machine needs its floppy to boot. I installed the woody package of aboot and used it to:
swriteboot -v /dev/sdc /boot/bootlx It seems fine: preserving boot partition 1 bootsize:165 sectors bootsect:2 done! but SRM claims: failed to read dkb200.2.0.2.1 bootstrap failure (I tried all the disks indicated by "show dev" in case I misinterpreted the naming scheme. Only dkb0, where Digital Unix resides, works.) fdisk on /dev/sdc shows that the first cylinder is free. Detected an OSF/1 disklabel on /dev/sdc, entering disklabel mode. To return to DOS partition table mode, use the 'r' command. BSD disklabel command (m for help): p 3 partitions: # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2 900 899 ext2 b: 901 1100 200 swap c: 1101 5038 3938 ext2
