Geert Stappers wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:54:16PM -0500, John Larsen wrote:
I am installing woody on a Alpha personal workstation 500a. It used to
run Suse 7.1. However, I get stuck in the installation and it keeps
going back to the installation menu after prompting for being rebooted.
All seems to work ok until the rebbot to continue the installation of
the system. I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction ( I did
read the fine manual ) but I am still unclear on the boot parameters
upon rebooting.
I have booted from a floppy containing linload.exe and milo and
installation from the cd works ok.
After installing the base system, kernel and drivers I find the
following mounted:
/dev/ram0 on / type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /target type ext2 (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /instmnt type iso9660 (ro)
there are two versions of fstab on on /target/etc
/dev/sda2 / ext2 errors=remount-ro
/dev/sda3 none swap sw
proc /proc proc defaults
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660
and /etc/fstab that only shows the /dev/fd0
Then mkdir /mnt/fat
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat
cd /instmnt/milo
cp miata linload.exe /mnt/fat
mount then also shows /dev/sda1 on /mnt/fat
fdisk /dev/sda indicated sda2 as bootable
I edited the boot parameters as boot sda2:/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-generic
root=/dev/sda2 but that doesn't work - it just restarts the installation
from the cd.
Your system boots in several stages:
* ROM
* SRM or ARC
* MILO
* vmlinuz
The ROM has been told to use SRM or ARC
SRM/ARC starts MILO
MILO loads and starts vmlinuz
but that is only the simplified version of the boot chain.
Are you sure you configured at the right place the right item?
What happens when you remove the bootfloppy from the floppy drive?
It reboots no different whether the floppy is in or out. I have noticed
that milo finds a miata version of 2.2.16-suse and then detects a change
of disk, then uses the cd-rom and the installation starts over. Thanks
for your help. I understand that debian-alpha is the proper list so I'll
ask there.
Thank you in advance,
John Larsen
Geert Stappers
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