Re: [suse-axp] SuSe 6.3 on Alphastation 250 4/266

From: Alan Wilson (phyaw@phy.hw.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 13:27:36 PDT

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From: "Alan Wilson" <phyaw@phy.hw.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:27:36 +0100
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] SuSe 6.3 on Alphastation 250 4/266

    Thanks for the advice i'll give it a try.

    I think i may be onto something as well with the NCR driver problem. I
    booted from a SuSE 6.1 floppy which has a kernel containing the NCR drivers
    and the system booted fine. The problem is now that as the network card
    driver is a module, the 2.2.13 modules i have won't be compatible with the
    2.2.9 kernel so i have no ethernet access.

    I think i'll have to do the following:

    1)Reinstall 6.3 this time remembering to install the kernel source code

    2)Boot with the 6.1 floppy and build my own 2.2.13 kernel with NCR
    drivers,TGA support and ethernet support built in.

    3)Copy this to the boot partition and hopefully that should all work.

    Unless someone knows better and can save me some work!!

    Alan./

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Justin Wood" <justin_wood@usa.net>
    To: <suse-axp@suse.com>
    Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 8:25 PM
    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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