Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:06:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909271202100.2717-100000@talisman.mv.com> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] install problem cont'd
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 alex@chem.ufl.edu wrote:
OK, I didn't see the original posting so I may be missing something
but....
> Hi list,
>
> thanks for the helpful comments I got so far. They inched me a little
> bit closer to get SuSE 6.1 installed. After booting with -fl 0 enabled
> I get the following messages:
> After this the machine reads from the floppy for a little while, hangs,
> i.e., just sits there apparently doing nothing for half an hour by now.
> So, something must be wrong. I tried to swap the diskette to the
> install diskette (suggested by the manual on page 17) even though aboot
> didn't prompt me to, with no result.
>
> I guess, my questions are the following:
> 1. does this look like a hardware problem?
Not sure, are you seeing the kernel boot messages? hardware detection
etc....? and what type of machine is this?
> 2. if aboot is just waiting for the install diskette, how do I tell it
> that it is in the drive after I swap?
The kernel should ask for the disk.
> 3. would it be possible at this point to boot from the CD? If so, what
> flags would be needed?
I don't think the SuSE cdrom is bootable or contains a root fs, but I
could be wrong.
> 4. In order to educate myself better on the boot process, can someone
> give me a pointer to the inner workings, man page, docs, etc. of aboot?
> Obviously I don't have the machine up and running so can't use it to
> look into the man pages.
The SRM howto gives you a little info on this:
http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/srm.html
I would expect your boot command to be something like this:
boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"
but again, I didn't see the original post.
--rdp
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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