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Re: No answer... can anyone help me?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Wed Nov 20 15:10:47 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 03:53:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <redhat_list@numedics.com>
To: "Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl>
cc: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <c=NL%a=MARK400%p=KPMG%l=KPMG/CENEXM01/00222D54@mailex.kpmg.nl>
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Hi.
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THX
-AEF
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Castelijn, Maurice wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm not on the mailing list anymore due to the fact I can't seperate
> my business mail from the hundreds of redhat list mails a day. I have
> sent two mails to Redhat support, but haven't had an answer sofar.
>
> So, I was hoping if anyone could help me on this...
>
> I have included two mails I wrote:
>
>
> --------------------------
> M A I L 1 / 2:
> --------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I have currently problems installing RH 4.0 on my DEC/Alpha 2000 AXP
>
> I try to boot my machine with OSF. There, I can do "BOOT DKA400" to try
> to boot from CDROM. Then, 'aboot' asks for the kernel to be used. I
> don't know what to do here. I've tried almost everything (i.e.:
> boot,kernels/jensen.gz,live,-). The FAQ's tell me the problem can be
> solved by using a MILO loader. Problem is that I can't find the right
> image for a MILO installation for my DEC 2000 AXP.
>
> My previous boot loader (when I was using 3.0.3) worked fine. I've tried
> to use the boot loader in combination with the installation guide too.
> No success unfortunately.
>
> If you could tell me how to solve this, I'd appreciate it.
>
> (NOTE:"the Jensen can't boot from floppy drive, so I _have_ to use the
> cdrom. Or, a guide for MILO for Jensen Alpha's...)
>
>
>
> Maurice Castelijn.
> KPMG EDP Auditors, Netherlands
> Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl
>
> ----------------------------
> M A I L 2 / 2:
> ----------------------------
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> >>I try to boot my machine with OSF. There, I can do "BOOT DKA400" to try
> >>to boot from CDROM. Then, 'aboot' asks for the kernel to be used. I
> >>don't know what to do here. I've tried almost everything (i.e.:
> >>boot,kernels/jensen.gz,live,-). The FAQ's tell me the problem can be
> >>solved by using a MILO loader. Problem is that I can't find the right
> >>image for a MILO installation for my DEC 2000 AXP.
> >
> >>My previous boot loader (when I was using 3.0.3) worked fine. I've tried
> >>to use the boot loader in combination with the installation guide too.
> >>No success unfortunately.
> >
> >>If you could tell me how to solve this, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> >>(NOTE:"the Jensen can't boot from floppy drive, so I _have_ to use the
> >>cdrom. Or, a guide for MILO for Jensen Alpha's...)
>
> I've tried to find MILO. But I've also found out that it's not possible
> to use MILO with Jensen machines. Is that right?
>
> This is what I get when I try to boot from cdrom:
>
> >>> boot dka400
> INIT-S-CPU...
> AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
> AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
> AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
> AUDIT_LOAD_DONE
>
> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.5
> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.35
> aboot: no disklabel found
> aboot: booted_dev=`scsi 1 6 0 0 400 0 jens-io', guessing
> boot_device=`scd0'
> iso: Max size:320424 Log zone size:2048
> iso: First datazone:68 Root inode number 139264
> aboot: loading plain ...
> aboot: unexpected object file format 1020
> aboot: loading compressed ...
>
> unzip: unknown compression method
> Enter kernel name and arguments:
> aboot>
>
>
>
> And then I don't know what to do. I want to install it to DKA0. I've
> tried about everything: tried to boot from 'boot', from 'live', from the
> root... from other disks, but I can't find the right one... I just need
> to install it from cdrom, since my floppy drive isn't bootable for a
> Jensen.
> Could you please help me from here?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Maurice Castelijn.
>
>
> >
>
>
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