[ No need to CC me, I'm subscribed to debian-boot. ] On Oct 18, Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I have an Alpha machine (XP1000) currently running woody. I'd > > like to be of some help in getting the new installer working > > properly on this architecture. How can I best do that? Is now a > > good time to get involved, or is it still too early? > > Do you have an SRM console? Do you boot aboot or milo?
SRM, aboot > If its SRM (which means you can be using aboot) try one of: > > rsync -avP mrvn.homeip.net::debian-installer/latest/alpha/ OK, I did this, got different errors. I'll look into it a bit myself, then send on the messages if I cannot figure it out quickly. > Milo support is not yet done due to the lack of milo udebs. You could > try to build a milo and debianize the source. I tried and couldn't get > it to work properly. > > > I think I have enough time to do test installs and more debugging of > > problems I encounter than Joe Average user, but I am not at all > > familiar with how the installer works. It's easy for me to create > > an install CD using jigdo. I've done that already. Installing with > > it did not get far. Should I just start posting messages about the > > problems I encounter to this list, or file bugs, or both? > > At the moment I would like to know if the cds boot at all. If they do > and installation report is welcome. You will probably encounter errors > related to whats on the CDs, like suport for scsi is missing or > similar. Just tell the list or me to get it added. It booted, but died very early, while trying to mount the ramdisk, rd/0. (If this sounds familiar, it's because I posted it to debian-alpha.) Any ideas? I'm still looking into this one. RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384k size 1024k blocksize . . . RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 2249k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev VFS: Cannot open root device "rd/0" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > On the other hand if you find a bug in a specific module like > base-installer fails silently better report it as bug against the > package, which will end up here too but you get a notice when the bug > is closed. OK, thanks. -- Neil Roeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
