I have a XL-300 and I have never successfully installed from the cdrom. I just made boot floppy's and off I went. The biggest problem I've had is to get the floppy's to last long enough to get to the installer ;-)
rgh On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 11:03, Jean-SÃbastien Guay wrote: > Hello Thierry, > > > boot sr0:/boot/linux root=/dev/sr0 load_ramdisk=1 > > (Please DO correct me if i am wrong) > > At which stage i get all the various messages up to this error: > > Kernel Panic, unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > I have an XL-366, and I have found it impossible to boot from the Woody > installation CD. I don't know if it's because of MILO, or the XL/XLT > series of machines, but I always get the exact same message as you when > I try. > > I ended up making boot disks to install (using the images on the CD). > You need to make a MILO diskette, which you already have, a root > diskette using root.bin, and a rescue diskette using rescue.bin. You > then boot to MILO, and issue this boot command: > > boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 > > That will start the installer, from which you will be able to select > your CDs as the installation source. > > BTW, I had a 2GB drive too, and it's a real pain having so little space. > I ended up buying a 9GB SCSI drive (your machine's controller needs the > 50-pin fast SCSI-2 drives like mine, I believe) on eBay for about 65$ > CAD, which is a nice price. It's much more comfortable with a bit more > space. > > Also, if your machine has a 3DLabs Oxygen 102 video card like mine did, > ditch that and get a cheap Matrox or ATI card. I got a Matrox Mystique > (circa 1996 approx) and it works like a charm. The Oxygen is totally > unsupported in Xfree 4.3.x, and the mga driver (for Matrox cards) which > comes stock with Xfree is great and very mature. > > Finally, I encourage more RAM. My machine had 64MB stock, I upgraded to > 512MB for (again) about 65$ CAD, and it runs so much smoother! Just > remember these machines need 36bit parity RAM SIMMs. > > If you need any more advice on this type of machine, just ask. I have a > Windows HLP file that has some nice info on the actual hardware found in > Alpha XL 300, 333 and 366 machines, made by Digital themselves. I can > send it to you if you want. It was very helpful to me. > > Good luck, > > J-S -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291
