Hi,
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:50:44PM -0500, Kelledin wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:41 pm, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > > I just happened to get one, so any interest if getting linux > > "Just happened?" You lucky devil, you! ;D Actually i just got it free. They were going to junk it and i 'adoptec it for good retirement home' > > > I have told that it's upgraded GS140 (from AlphaServer 8400). > > It has 8CPU (6/525 if my memory serves me. 2/board) and 12GB > > memory (4GB/board). > > This is a "Wildfire" machine, and Debian claims to support it in > Woody: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch-hardware-req.en.html > > I myself would be using Woody to bootstrap LinuxFromScratch on > there, but I'm just crazy like that. > > Also, from HP: > > http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/gs160/ > > These things are supposed to support "Linux Developers Kit", > whatever that means. No it's not. This is AlphaServer 8400 (upgraded to GS140) and you're talking about GS160, which is AFAIK different machine. http://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/sys_types AFAIK GS80 is just updated AlphaServer 8200 What i have understood is, that the GS140 is just upgraded 8400. This propably means just CPU/memory update and nothing else. I might be terribly wrong about that too. > > Hmm. To my knowledge, these things don't come with floppy > drives. I don't know if they have floppy controllers or not. I > suspect not, which would mean you're stuck having to boot from > CD. I haven't had experience booting Debian CDs on Alpha, but I > would first try booting it with the "bd2.4" disc if possible. > Netbooting is a bit of a big step if you've never done it > before. No it does not have floppy. CD-boot is as it's normally from SRM. alilo actually loads kernel+initrd, but that's it. MOP-boot is working too. I upgraded the SRM before with MOP. It's only reasonably easy way to do that :) > > > What was the boot command you tried, and what was the error > message, precisely? Did it ever get farther than SRM? Norman like 'boot dkg0' and the selected from alilo prompt the set i wanted to try. > > Also, a "show dev" from SRM would be very helpful... > Sure it would, but i didn't have right kind of adapter with me before, so i was pretty much limited to VT510. I have now suitable cable for my laptop, so i can grab it out. But it's not the SRM as i said above. Alilo is loading, but the kernel isn't starting. It's HALT:ing right after it's trying to start the kernel. I'll grab those 'show dev' etc. later. now i am too far away and i really should get some sleep. -- o ___o </\_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\o_ _ \<,_ __/\ <URL: http://iki.fi/upi/ > ^^^^^^^^^^ (*)/ (*) /
