Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Andrew Forgue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Alpha Debian Netinst
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:32:49 -0500
>
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
>
> It says on that page to report any installations to you.
>
> Well, I'm trying�the "sarge-alpha-netinst.iso" from testing (both
> daily and non-daily)�on an alpha PWS 500au with 128mb ram using
> aboot/SRM and so far am unsuccessful.� It dies while trying to�mount
> /dev/rd/0.� If I tell it to use /dev/ram0 as a root, it says it
> can't find init.� If I pass�init=/linurc to the kernel, it still
> says no init found.� So I'm slowly hopefully getting there.
>
> I don't have a full dump of the boot process, otherwise I'd dump it to you.
>
> Any Ideas?� Otherwise I guess it doesn't work... *shrug*
> ----------
The correct line would be:
0:boot/linux root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall
and similar for the other numbers.
Raphael Hertzog please change debian-cd to use those settings
too. (are you using root.bin or initrd.gz?)
MfG
Goswin
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