Hi All, This weekend I tried out the boot floppies on my Jensen. (http://people.debian.org/~falk/disks-alpha/jensen/) The booting went fine, the install screen came up correctly. :-)))
OTOH two things are missing: 1st: There is no driver for the AHA1742 SCSI controller in the install kernel. So I can't do an install. 2nd: The is no driver for the NE2000 ISA network card. In my oppinion, the common network cards in the Jensen are: DE203, 205, 422 (the EISA one), and NE2000. But maybe I'm wrong. So I think it is a good idea to include the drivers for these cards in the installation kernel. If it fits on the floppy. -- Steve ps:Here is the booting message: # # Bootparameters for Debian-Installation # # Installation-Boot with: boot dva0 -fl 0 # Rescue-Boot with: boot dva0 -fi linux.gz -fl root=/dev/... # # from SRM-Console # 0:linux.gz ro root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 aboot> b linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0 aboot: loading compressed linux.gz... aboot: segment 0, 2369304 bytes at 0xfffffc0000310000 aboot: zero-filling 242544 bytes at 0xfffffc0000552718 aboot: starting kernel linux.gz with arguments root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 cons ole=ttyS0 Linux version 2.2.19 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian pre release)) #1 Sun Jun 10 11:08:18 UTC 2001 Booting on Jensen using machine vector Jensen from SRM Command line: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0 Max ASN from HWRPB is bad (0xf) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 64=1c, 60=c3, 3fa=01 2fa=01 Calibrating delay loop... 147.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 125096k available Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 256k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 1024k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 128k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [SPP,PS2] parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured lp0: using parport0 (polling). RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M DOR0=4 floppy interrupt on bizarre fdc 2 handler=0000000000000000 FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed serial console detected. Disabling virtual terminals. init started: BusyBox v0.60.0 (2001.08.03-21:27+0000) multi-call binary
