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

From: Andreas Vetter (vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 03:02:58 PST

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    Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:02:58 +0100 (MET)
    From: Andreas Vetter <vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
    Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0003151144490.12685-100000@wptx60.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
    Subject: RE: [suse-axp] Boot hangs when installing on AS 250/4
    

    The 6.1-modules are on the install-disk belonging to 6.1. You should be
    able to install 6.3 over FTP with this 2 disks, but you *might* run in
    trouble, when it comes to a reboot during the installation-process.

    Sorry, that's all I know.

    Perhaps you should try again to start from the 6.3-aboot-images. I was
    definitely able to start the installation on an AS 255 from 6.3-CD. So the
    6.3-aboot-image works in principle.

    Bye.

    On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 Stefan.Gasteiger@Gendorf.de wrote:

    ->I now managed to get the machine booting:
    ->
    ->I used the aboot-tga Image from SuSE 6.1
    ->
    ->Thank you all for your help!
    ->
    ->And here's the next problem:
    ->Wenn I use the 6.1 boot image, the yast
    ->does not recognize the 6.3 module for
    ->the ethernet nic (DE 450).
    ->
    ->Where can I get the image for the 6.1 modules?
    ->
    ->I know it should work, if I buy the 6.3 CD
    ->(then I don't need the NIC to install linux
    ->and I'm able to build a new 6.3 kernel),
    ->but the time is too short for me to wait,
    ->until I get the CD.
    ->
    ->TIA again!
    ->
    ->Best regards,
    ->
    ->Stefan Gasteiger
    ->SG5599-RIPE
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    ->
    ->
    ->
    ->> -----Original Message-----
    ->> From: Andreas Vetter [mailto:vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de]
    ->> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:29 AM
    ->> To: Suse-AXP
    ->> 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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