RE: [suse-axp] Digital 3305 Install Problems

From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 04:29:16 PST

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    Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 07:29:16 -0500 (EST)
    From: Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003070726560.27210-100000@talisman.mv.com>
    Subject: RE: [suse-axp] Digital 3305 Install Problems
    

    On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Craig Allen wrote:

    > Hi.
    >
    > Which Disk has the root filesystem.

    If you are doing the install then it would be the floppy (or CD-ROM). You
    boot commmand might look like this:

    >>boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"

    If this is after the install, then it is whatever you setup during the
    install for your root fs.
     
    > This seems to be my problem.
    >
    > Is it possible to boot off the two disks and install SUSE from the Internet?

    That's a question for SuSE, haven't tried this myself, though I think it's
    possible.

    --rdp

    > Regards
    >
    > Craig
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Rich Payne [mailto:rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org]
    > Sent: 06 March 2000 16:12
    > To: Craig Allen
    > Cc: Alpha Suse Mail Exploder (E-mail)
    > Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Digital 3305 Install Problems
    >
    >
    >
    > Can you tell us the boot command you are using and what the system looks
    > like (IDE, SCSI disks, CD-ROM etc...). The halt code 5 is pretty generic,
    > but many times means it couldn't mount the root filesystem.
    >
    > --rdp
    >
    > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Craig Allen wrote:
    >
    > > Hi.
    > >
    > > I had this problem a while back and now I'm trying again to install SUSE
    > 6.3
    > > on my DEC Server.
    > >
    > > I thought the problem could be with my DEC firmware but now I have
    > upgraded
    > > it to the latest version and I still get the error below.
    > >
    > > I have a Digital 3305R Server 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM (NT White Box Server)
    > >
    > > I have downloaded aboot and install from the suse website.
    > >
    > > Created my disks using rawrite.
    > >
    > > I have setup my boot options via SRM I get the follow error below:
    > >
    > > The boot disk loads Ok and the ramdisk starts to load but then I get the
    > > following error:
    > >
    > > Halted CPU 0
    > > Halt Code = 5
    > > Halt instruction executed
    > > PC = fffff0000310040
    > >
    > > Any ideas. I'm thinking of trading in the DEC for a Intel box, so much
    > > easier and painless.
    > >
    > > Regards
    > >
    > > Craig
    > >
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    > Rich Payne
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    Rich Payne
    rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org



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