Hi, this is to notify you that I eventually succeeded - I got an Alpha Compaq XP1000 to boot into FAI sysinfo using a home-built kernel. I had to create an initrd (although I'm not referring to it later) because without one the SRM console would barf. I don't fully understand what happened, but at least I've got something to play around with next week. Thanks to Steve Langasek who pointed me to several small but helpful things. Thomas: as soon as I sorted things out I'll publish a 0th version of a FAI-on-Alpha HOWTO. I'll get back to you for some details of the probing procedure though.
Have a nice weekend, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}
