RE: [suse-axp] Boot hangs when installing on AS 250/4

From: Andreas Vetter (vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 02:28:55 PST

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    Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:28:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0003151126140.12685-100000@wptx60.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: RE: [suse-axp] Boot hangs when installing on AS 250/4

    Another thought is the file parameter in your boot command. It has a typo:
    It should be either vmlinuz or vmlinux.gz (don't remember) but not
    vmlinuz.gz.

    Might work. Good luck!

    On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Tim Duggan wrote:

    ->Just a guess, does it have a TGA video card? I remember some time ago
    ->there was a problem with kernel images not having TGA support. The fix
    ->was to download a different image, IIRC it was called vm_full (or
    ->something like that). Scan through the archives looking for TGA in the
    ->subject line.

    ->> -----Original Message-----
    ->> From: Stefan.Gasteiger@Gendorf.de [SMTP:Stefan.Gasteiger@Gendorf.de]
    ->>
    ->> At first I've got to say that I'm not experienced with Alphas at all.
    ->>
    ->> I just tried to install SuSE on an AS250/4.
    ->> Therefore I created a "aboot" disk with rawrite and the file
    ->> "aboot_xx" from
    ->> ftp.suse.com.
    ->>
    ->> To boot the disk I enter at the SRM console:
    ->> boot dva0 -f vmlinuz.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
    ->> /bootdevice=/dev/fd0"
    ->>
    ->> This is the screen output I get:
    ->>
    ->> reading 156 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.1
    ->> bootstrap code read in
    ->> base = lf2000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 13800
    ->> Initializing HWRPB at 2000
    ->> Initializing page table at 1e4000
    ->> Initializing machine stab
    ->> Setting affinity to the primary CPU
    ->> Jumping to bootstrap code
    ->>
    ->> Then the machine hangs up.
    ->>
    ->> Thank you for any tips!

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