PWS 600au with Alpha Core

[Phillip G Deneault]

I've run into that problem in the past myself, which is why I've already 
  tried two IDE drives and my Plextor 68-pin SCSI. :-)

For fun, I tried downloading Debian's Sarge distro and it too hangs in 
the exact same place.  Now, I know what your going to say...'the exact 
same place'?  Yes, the exact same place(output below).

Any ideas?  Magic boot arguements?  SRM settings?

I am running the 7.2-1 version of SRM.

Phil

boot: loading uncompressed boot/vmlinuz...
aboot: loading compressed boot/vmlinuz...
aboot: zero-filling 407488 bytes at 0xfffffc0000571710
aboot: loading initrd (2929480 bytes/2860 blocks) at 0xfffffc0023c18000
aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguments ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev
/ram devfs=mount,dall console=ttyS0 text debconf/priority=low 
BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBIA
N_FRONTEND=text
Linux version 2.4.27-1-generic (tretkowski at raindrop) (gcc version 3.3.4 
(Debian
1:3.3.4-9)) #1 Sat Sep 4 01:15:04 CEST 2004
Booting GENERIC on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM
Major Options: LEGACY_START
Command line: ramdisk_size=16384  root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall 
console=ttyS0 t
ext debconf/priority=low BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
memcluster 0, usage 1, start        0, end      236
memcluster 1, usage 0, start      236, end    73727
memcluster 2, usage 1, start    73727, end    73728
freeing pages 236:384
freeing pages 749:73727
reserving pages 749:751
Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc0023c18000 (2929480 bytes)
pci: cia revision 1 (pyxis)
On node 0 totalpages: 73727
zone(0): 73727 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=16384  root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall 
console=
ttyS0 text debconf/priority=low BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
HWRPB cycle frequency bogus.  Estimated 599711925 Hz
Using epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1187.96 BogoMIPS
Memory: 575752k/589816k available (1583k kernel code, 12176k reserved, 
597k data
, 176k init)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
pci: passed tb register update test
pci: passed sg loopback i/o read test
pci: passed pte write cache snoop test
pci: failed valid tag invalid pte reload test (mcheck; workaround available)
pci: passed pci machine check test
pci: tbia workaround enabled
pci: enabling save/restore of SRM state
PCI: Bus 1, bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052
   IO window: disabled.
   MEM window: 09c00000-09cfffff
   PREFETCH window: 09000000-09bfffff
pci: pyxis 8K boundary dma bug - sg dma disabled



jon norstog wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 15:31, Phillip G Deneault wrote:
> 
>>I've attempted to get Alpha Core .9 installed on my PWS, however after 
>>choosing my boot option from aboot I get the following text and then the 
>>install simply stops.  
> 
> 
> Dear Phillip, & list:
> 
> The PWS series can be a little cranky installing RH Linux from the
> CDrom.  I've read a number of explanations and have some experience as
> well.
> 
> Sometime it helps to get an old, slow CDrom drive and plug it into the
> IDE cable.  This has worked well for me with a 11996-vintage Sony 8x
> drive.  Your local thrift store will probably have a bin full priced
> below $5.
> 
> The other alternative is a SCSI CDrom.  I got a pack of 5 68-pin Plextor
> 24X drives for $10.  They work well enough on a fresh install.  But on a
> really iffy install, I've had the best luck with the old Sony.  And a
> fresh install over a formatted hard drive is infinitely easier than an
> upgrade or install over old without formatting.
> 
> Go figure.
> 
> 
> jn
> 
> 
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