Re: [suse-axp] SuSE 7.1 install problems on DS20

From: Stefan Fent (sf@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 00:12:18 PDT

  • Next message: Markus Lischka: "Re: [suse-axp] SuSE 7.1 install problems on DS20" 

    Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:12:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Stefan Fent <sf@suse.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107020903360.7158-100000@d71.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] SuSE 7.1 install problems on DS20

    Hi,

    On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Markus Lischka wrote:

    > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:54:35 +0200 (CEST)
    > From: Markus Lischka <Markus_Lischka@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
    > To: suse-axp@suse.com
    > Subject: [suse-axp] SuSE 7.1 install problems on DS20
    >
    > We have trouble getting SuSE 7.1 installed on a DS20E: After booting from
    > CD using the standard aboot configuration (/etc/vm_full.gz), the kernel is
    > loaded but then stops with the message "please insert root floppy disk and
    > press enter" (although the ramdisk had already been loaded by aboot and
    > the cd-rom is properly detected). On our XP1000, the installation
    > procedure just continues with the message "RAMDISK: ..." loads linuxrc.
    > Using the 2.4 kernel (CD1:/etc/vm_24.gz kernels) results in a kernel panic
    > before linuxrc is started :(
    >
    > Booting from floppy disks (aboot_xx, install_xx) does not work either but
    > stops when reading the root disk (ext2 read error). The same disks work on
    > two different XP1000s though.
    >
    > Our configuration: DS20E, 2x 21264 CPUs, 256MB + 2GB RAM, 18GB HD,
    > Firmware SRM-6.0 (standard Compaq configuration).
    >
    > What's going wrong here?

    Aboot loads the initrd at the very end of phys. RAM, but the kernel only
    sees 2GB, so it can't read the initrd anymore (on machines >2GB).
    The solution is to use the image 'install' (not install_xx) and boot:

    >>>b <boot-device> -fi /etc/vm_full.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0 fake_initrd"

    >
    > Any hints are greatly appreciated,
    > Markus Lischka

    With kind regards,

            Stefan Fent 

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