Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fre, 15 Okt 2004, M�ns Rullg�rd wrote: >> > aboot: >> > ====== >> > - Put aboot and kernel on a floppy, boot from floppy >> > this is working, but I am not a big friend of it. >> >> aboot and kernel on HD on onboard controller is another option. >> That's how I boot my sx164. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to take this route, put a small IDE > disk into the machine, and only get aboot, kernel and root-fs from > there. Anyting else will be done from SCSI disks.
There is no problem having the root fs on the SCSI disks. Just pass root=/dev/sdXX to the kernel. >> > - Boot via network/bootp >> > this doesn't work up to now, OTOH I want the alpha to be >> > not dependent on another machine >> >> Have you tried booting with aboot over the network. It's worked for >> me. > > Finally I got it to work using the fix from Ivan Kokshaysky. > No I only need a SRM-bootp acceptable NIC for our second alpha ;-) The Digital Tulip series usually work well (surprise). They are getting rare these days, though. -- M�ns Rullg�rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
