Installation Problem
junk email
junk186 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 9 22:04:23 UTC 2005
Hi Wilson,
I was able to boot from the ide cd-rom at first then
it failed to read after the vmlinux was load.
...
aboot: loading compressed /kernels/vmlinux.gz ...
aboot: zero-filling 343920 bytes at 0xfffffc0000ab8690
aboot: loading initrd (2260350 bytes / 2207 blocks) at
0xfffff0000fce4000
failed to send read to dqa0.0.0.11.0
...
Here is my show config:
SRM Console V5.8-1 OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-2, Digital
UNIX PALcode V1.23-2
SROM Revision: 3.1.2
Alpha 21164A-2
Pyxis ASIC Pass 2
MEMORY
256 MBytes of system memory
Bank # Size Base Addr
______ ______ _________
0 256 MB 000000000
Total Bad Pages = 0
Total Good Memory = 256 Mbytes
Bcache Size = 2 MB
PCI Bus
Bus 00 Slot 05: 905010B7
Bus 00 Slot 06/0: 20644005
Bus 00 Slot 06/1: 00033D3D
Bus 00 Slot 06/2: 00023D3D
Bus 00 Slot 08: Intel 82378 Bridge to bus 1, ISA
Bus 00 Slot 09: NCR 53c875
pka0.70.9.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
dka0.0.0.9.0 SEAGATE ST34572W
dka200.2.0.9.0 IBM DDYS-T18350N
Bus 00 Slot 11: CMD PCI0604
dqa.0.0.11.0
ISA
Slot Device Name Type Enabled BaseAddr IRQ DMA
0
0 MOUSE Embedded Yes 60 12
1 KBD Embedded Yes 60 1
2 COM1 Embedded Yes 3f8 4
3 COM2 Embedded Yes 2f8 3
4 LTP1 Embedded Yes 3bc 7
5 FLOPPY Embedded Yes 3f0 6 2
Paul
--- Wilson Morris <grem at cox-internet.com> wrote:
> Show config from the >>> prompt will show the
> configuration.
> You should be able to boot from the ide cdrom with b
> dqa or b dqb
> depending on how you installed the cable.
>
> junk email wrote:
>
> >I am trying to install a RedHat 7.2 on an AlphaPC
> >164LX running SRM 5.8-1
> >
> >Boot from Floppy:
> >b dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "root=/dev/fd0
> >load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> >...
> >running anaconda - please wait ...
> >'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> >traceback (innermost last):
> >file "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 31, in?
> >if (os.path.exist('isys')):
> >attributeerror: path
> >install exited abnormally
> >
> >
> >Boot from SCSI cd-rom:
> >b dka500
> >...
> >failed to send read to dka500
> >
> >
> >Boot from IDE cd-rom:
> >b dqa0
> >...
> >failed to send read to dqa0
> >
> >Any suggestion would be appreciated.
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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