installation problems - Help will be appreciated - Getting er ror during boot

[Richard Irving]

Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
>    To my installation problem the answer from Richard Irving helped
>   to certain extend. Thanks.


   It is a start... but, the journey of thousand miles
begins with but the first step.


  "Life is a journey, not a destination"



>   According to him I have to just write the .iso
>   files to CD. I have created the first CD and tried to boot from it
>   with the following command:
> 
>   prompt>boot dka500 -fl 0 (failed with error)
> 
>   prompt>boot dka500 -fl 2  (failed with error)
> 
>   I got the following error:
> 
>   Aboot: no disklabel found

   Hrmm... Looks like you got to aboot...

   Which version of disk1 do you have ??

  There was a foul one found on the .ro download site,
for a  brief period of time.... and I see from below that
is where you got your files..

  You may want to re-download your files.... just in case.

FYI: the .au site is the origin, at the moment.

  A disklabel in this case is a partition, and usually
corresponds to en entry in the /boot/etc/aboot.conf file.

  When you specified -fl 0 it went for the first partition in the list,
and errored out.

  When you told aboot via  "-fl 2" was to be booted, it looked for
entry 2 in the aboot table... and in this case,
I think, didn't find one.

   So flailing -did- tell you that you were at least
getting to aboot.. it is a start.

   I haven't check my reburn of the disk 1, perhaps
tonight after the Presidential Debate. To see if I have
improved luck, myself...

  I am having issues on the same kind of machine,
but I reburned a couple CD's just in case it is
a media error.

  As, they are claiming to have already had success with these
type of machines....

  We may have to start by eliminating variables, one flail at a
  times...

   :)


  "Flog something enough, and eventually it will yield! ( usually.....)"

      - Pontias Pilate




>   Halt code: 7
>   Machine check while in PAL mode
>   PC = 16d58
> 
>     The Firmware revision: 6.0
> 
>   Any idea?
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Kumar
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    My Question was:
>   =================
> 
> 
> Hello,
>    Iam trying to install the Fedora 2 OS on a
>    AlphaServer 1200 5/533 4MB machine.
>    I did the following:
> 
>    Got the following files from 
>     ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/2/iso/*
> 
>    The files are:
>    AC-0.9-disc1.iso 
>    AC-0.9-disc3.iso 
>    AC-0.9-disc5.iso
>    AC-0.9-disc2.iso
>    AC-0.9-disc4.iso
>    README  
>    MD5SUMS
> 
>    Got the files to a linux machine(intel pc platform)
>    Used the 2 commands to create the CD. I just created only one
>    CD(AC-0.9-disc1.iso) for testing.
> 
>    1. mkisofs -o disc1.iso -r -V disc1 AC-0.9-disc1.iso
>    2. used xcdroast command on linux to write to CD
> 
>   In SRM prompt I used the following command to boot:
> 
>   Prompt>>boot dka500 -fi "kernels/generic.gz" -fl "root=/dev/scd0"
> 
>   Then I get the following error:
> 
> "  dka500.5.0.1.1 is not a valid boot block  "
> 
>  Any help is very much appreciated. 
> 
>    With regards,
>     Kumar
> 
> 
> 
> 
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