Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux

[Timothy Lin]

I've tried Symbios 53c875 , they can be seen by the SRM, but the linux
driver seems to have problem getting it to work, it kept getting me
timeout errors, as for Qlogic 1040, I only one of those, they work fine,
but I found it impossible to buy additional cards for my machines :(

Tim.

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Hoover, Tony wrote:

> You can boot from a small narrow SCSI drive, and have most of your directory
> structure on your wide SCSI drives that are attached to the Adaptec
> controller.  Or you could acquire a SCSI controller that is based on an
> LSI/Symbios 53C875 or a Qlogic 1040.  Both of those wide SCSI controllers
> should be supported in SRM.
>
> I've never played with netbooting, so I can't comment on that
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> Tony Hoover, Network Administrator
> KSU - Salina, College of Technology
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> > Subject: 	Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I've got several Alphaserver 2100 that needs to be retrofitted with newer
> > scsi drives so I can put Linux on it as a cluster. The scsi card that came
> > with the machine is too old and doesn't seems to support newer scsi
> > drives, so I tried to add adaptec 2940U2W series cards into them.
> > However, the SRM bios can't see them but once I boot into Linux using RH
> > CD images, the drives are totally functional, which means I can't use them
> > as  bootdisks, and since the original drives from digital are mostly
> > failing,  I need to rely on netboot to serve the boot images, then I can
> > access all the files on local disks.
> >
> > Can someone give me a few pointers on how to do it ?
> > I've been googling for quite a few days and have yet to find anything
> > helpful :(
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >
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