> On Feb 28, Zach Lowry illuminated : > Anyhow, here goes. I�ve got a VX40 Multia, which I�m trying to > netboot. I tried stable, no dice. kernel dies and it reboots. Then, I > tried Woody. It worked. Loads tftpboot.img, I�m able to mount nfs, > install the base system. I get an error about chroot /target, but I > cancel out, and attempt to finish the install. It locks up on reboot.
> So, then I take my newly loaded Debian install, and try to boot with > an aboot padded kernel. Of course, I�m sure you know what happens, as > the Debian kernels no longer have NFS compiled in, and it can�t mount > root fs. > erm, i thought they did. I always install over nfs ... (local mirror availability and all) and have never noticed the lack of support. does 'cat /proc/filesystems' contain a line with "nodev nfs"? another option is to put a local copy of the install files (modules, root etc) on a disk and transfer that into your multia. then load the nfs module. > NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD all are afflicted with the same > problem. The kernel can�t get the mac address from the firmware. At > that seems to indicate more of a hardware problem than a software/debian/RH/<OS_here> problem :( try flashing the console with the latest firmware (locations available many times over in the archives here and www.linuxalpha.org) > first, I thought this might of been the problem that potato had, and > maybe it did, but it�s fixed now, I guess. I suppose I need to get > out a cross compiler and start building. > only caveat there, is that you *really* want to build your alpha binaries on a 64 bit machine. Wierd stuff and broken binaries happens otherwise. ./JP -- Jean-Paul Blaqui�re || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || verum ipsum factum "The male ego is a puppet master with a black sense of humour"
