Alpha Core ISO Images

[Jay Estabrook]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:20:03PM -0500, Ronald Reed wrote:
> > Installation
> > ============
> > Install is via CD only (both graphical and text-mode installs tested).
> > NFS or FTP installs will probably work, but you'll need at least CD 1
> > to boot from.
> 
> Is there a special boot command line for these CDs? Mine finds the
> bootloader, but then just sits there. I am going to double check that
> the first CD burned properly, but I thought I would ask while I was
> checking on that.

Well, I've tried two copies of CD#1 so far (MD5SUM checked, even
burned at different speeds), and the kernel fails to be decompressed
on both copies:

	...
	aboot: loading compressed /kernels/vmlinux.gz...
	unzip: unknown compression method
	aboot: loading uncompressed /kernels/vmlinux.gz...
	Welcome to aboot 0.9b
	Commands:
	...

This happened on all the machines i tried:

	DS20
	DS10
	XP1000
	LX164

So, has anyone successfully booted from CD#1?

 --Jay++

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