From: Justin Wood <justin_wood@usa.net> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:25:38 +0200 Message-Id: <00081121275400.08055@home> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] SuSe 6.3 on Alphastation 250 4/266
Try the fake initrd parameter in your boot string as suggested in the manual.
Regards
Justin
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Alan Wilson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to install SuSE 6.3 on an Alphastation 250 4/266 (avanti). The
> install goes fine,i can install all of the packages, configure the network
> through yast etc, but when it tries to boot the initially installed system
> it just hangs. I get a completely blank screen and the machine is totally
> dead.
>
> I created a dos partition for /boot and when i try and boot the kernel from
> MILO (using the ARC firmware) with
>
> boot sda1:/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4
>
> i get
>
> "invalied compressed format"
>
> I have the TGA framebuffer so i have installed the kernel with support for
> that, however i have read somewhere that this kernel does not have support
> for NCR SCSI controllers which my machine has.
>
> Is this correct and can i get a kernel with these controllers somwhere.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Alan.
>
>
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