Hi Debians After using debian for years on various ix86's. And having tried it on my 2 noname's a few times (without succes). I have finally gotten some further with my debian-alpha conquest.
System: noname alpha 166 axp33pci board ncr810 scsi yamaha cdr400 cdrom (with 512 sector jumper set) 2 GB seagate scsi HD Floppydrive (not working ??, see below) NE2000 ISA network card (have intel eepro100pci if needed in other machine) S3 Virge DX videocard It's running the SRM firmware I can now boot from the Slink Alpha 1 cdrom with: boot dka0 -file boot/noname/linux -flag "root=/dev/fd0" and this will load and bootstrap the kernel untill it gets to trying to mount the root filesystem. The problem is only, I don't have one yet... duh... I have a 2GB scsi disk and a SCSI Yamaha writer to boot the cd-rom from. Also included in the system is a floppy-drive. I have used dd to copy the root image to the floppy, but the kernel won't load it, it isn't even accessing the floppy, so I think the fd0 controller is either badly configured or not working (since the floppy light never ever lights up, and the drive never spins up, even though the same drive works perfectly in my ix86 systems) The floppy is also reported to be 2.88MB (I read that this is normal) Is there a way I can boot fully from CDROM like I can do on the 2.2 intel cd-s (lilo: rescue) and load the root fs from cd-rom, or do I need floppy. Are there any other ways to get the system booted (should it be that the fd0 controller is dead) I'm currently downloading potato-alpha-cd1... will this be able to boot from cd only (so no more floppies ???) Please reply to my directly, since i'm not on the -alpha list Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: markjanssen.homeip.net and markjanssen.[com|net|org|nl] Fax/VoiceMail: +31 20 8757555 Finger for GPG and GeekCode
