Re: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting

LennartB@cinnober.com
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 14:03:10 PDT

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    From: LennartB@cinnober.com
Date: Sun,  3 Jun 2001 22:03:10 +0100
Message-ID: <9thyRXzZCyVv.q0M3BVSB@mail1.telia.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting

    Have you tried getting it to boot from the SRM console?

    /Lennart

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    Ämne: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting
    Från: James Oakley <jfunk@funktronics.ca>
    Datum: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:47:26 +0100

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    I am an Alpha newbie, but I've been getting through it fairly well, despite
    my problems.

    First, the 7.1beta is awesome. The LVM works great and all of my hardware was
    detected flawlessly, except for the CL on-board video (I don't really care
    about that).

    One point about the installer: I cannot do an NFS install with the six ISOs.
    Once it runs out of packages to install on disk one, it tries to immediately
    get the other packages from the same place. There is no dialog for "insert
    disk 2" or the like. Luckily, I had enough space to copy the entire tree into
    one and do the install from that, yay.

    My current problem is with booting. Basically, if I don't boot in a
    specific, nonsensical way, the machine will hang. My notes on this are online
    at http://arthur.funktronics.ca/arthur/AXPInstallation

    Here is what I have to do:

    While in ARC, I have to go to the Supplementary Menu and select Display
    Hardware Configuration so that all of my 7 hard drives are detected properly.
    If not then MILO will only detect 5 of them and the machine will hang on
    "Spinning up disk sda..."

    Then, when I'm in MILO, I have to type 'ls bootdev' where bootdev is the
    device I'm booting from. If I don't do that, MILO will crash.

    Because it's so strange, I have no idea why it works when I do this and not
    otherwise.

    Has anybody else seen anything similar?

    Any ideas on how I can get the machine to boot without human intervention?

    Thanks,

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    James Oakley
    jfunk@funktronics.ca
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