Steve, Great comment. I just booted with -fl 0 and I got to the installer menu. I did see some flash of red, and messages that made me think it would crash again, but it did not. Should I be concerned?
Jim -----Original Message----- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AlphaServer 800 Installation Jim, On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:13:17AM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: > As stated below, I just tried the install boot using sarge, and did not > get the "kernel paging request" error. Perhaps this is because I got a > different error. After finding the aboot.conf file on the CD image, I > entered the command as follows: > >>>boot dak400 -fi /boot/vmlinuz -fl "ramdisk_size=16384 > initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall" Too much second-guessing of the system here. "boot dka400 -fl 0" should be sufficient. In fact, even though you've duplicated the exact argument set used by d-i, -fl 0 is preferred because some versions of SRM have a limit on the length of the flag string. This may be the problem here, since 08:02 is not the correct inode for a ramdisk. > Then I got this error: > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02 > Please append correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
