G'day, I just attempted an installation on an alpha with a daily 'business card' image from yesterday. After giving kernel boot parameters as vorlon described, the initial boot was a success. The SCSI controller and attached drives were detected. Unfortunately, some devfs weirdness seemed to prevent the installer from seeing the CDROM drive: it showed up in /dev/scsi/... but not in /dev/cdroms. Mounting the CD by hand worked, but d-i still refused to recognise it. Since the driver for the machine's network cards was on the CD, the installation got no further.
I was using a serial console, which mostly worked, although it seemed a bit peculiar for it to ask for a keyboard layout, and the screen redraw was significantly slower than it needed to be. Some relevant output from capturing the serial console: ~ # ls -l /dev/cdroms/ lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Jan 1 1970 cdrom0 -> ïïïscsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd ~ # ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 cd ~ # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /cdrom failed: No such file or directory ~ # mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd /cdrom mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd is write-protected, mounting read-only It looks to me like the first three characters in the link in /dev/cdroms should have been '../'. In case they get mangled by email, a hex dump is: 00000040 3e 20 c3 bf c3 bf c3 bf 73 63 73 69 2f 68 6f 73 |> ......scsi/hos| Hmm... six bytes... utf8 weirdness happening somewhere? Also, I saw a lot of suspicious-looking "unaligned trap" kernel messages. I've included a complete dmesg output at the end of this message in case it helps anyone. Cameron. ~ # dmesg Linux version 2.4.22-1-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030221 (Debian prerelease)) #8 Sat Oct 4 14:32:55 EST 2003 Booting GENERIC on Avanti using machine vector Avanti from SRM Command line: ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 249 memcluster 1, usage 0, start 249, end 8191 memcluster 2, usage 1, start 8191, end 8192 freeing pages 249:384 freeing pages 733:8191 reserving pages 733:734 Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc0003c08000 (3425779 bytes) On node 0 totalpages: 8191 zone(0): 8191 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 Using epoch = 2000 Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 458.36 BogoMIPS Memory: 56664k/65528k available (1603k kernel code, 6872k reserved, 454k data, 192k init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state sio_pci_route: PIRQ original 0xb058009 new 0xb0a0e0f Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 initialize_kbd: Keyboard reset failed, no ACK keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M floppy0: no floppy controllers found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 3345k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver serial usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000044eb0: 0000000120014dbc 2d 31 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000044eb4: 0000000120014dc4 2d 9 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 000002000004183c: 0000000120015fec 2d 31 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041840: 0000000120015fdc 2d 9 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002838: 000000012001713c 29 9 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002844: 000000012001c144 29 2 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002880: 000000012001c13c 29 9 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3 kbd-chooser(402): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120028be4 29 3 kbd-chooser(402): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120028be4 29 3 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002838: 00000001200199ec 29 9 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000000120002844: 000000012001d574 29 2 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810a detected ncr53c810a-0: rev 0x11 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 ncr53c-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking scsi0 : ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b-20010512 Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26F (C) DEC Rev: 1Q04 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CD-ROM CR-503BCQ Rev: 1.1c Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide: late registration of driver. Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ncr53c-0-<0,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8) SCSI device sda: 2050860 512-byte hdwr sectors (1050 MB) Partition check: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 ncr53c-0-<1,*>: target did not report SYNC. sr0: scsi-1 drive Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 0000020000041fc8: 0000000120014dc4 29 3 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200030c0: 00000001200188dc 29 18 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 000000012001899c 29 1 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 000000012001a29c 29 1 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 0000000120018d5c 29 1 main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 00000001200018d4: 0000000120019c5c 29 1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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