Very Computer

So, I'm new at this...

Victories:
1. MILO is working just fine, from my NTFS partition no-less, and is now
part of my boot-menu
2. MILO can boot my generic.img based floppy just fine, and I also tried the
newer 2.2.12-based generic.img

Problems:
1. MILO boots using the following command lines (all have been tried, all
yield the same results)
a) boot floppy (FAILS when prompted for RAM-disk)
b) boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 (FAILS
when prompted for RAM-disk)
c) boot fd0:vmlinux.gz -fl "rw root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
prompt_ramdisk=1" (FAILS when prompted for RAM-disk)
d) boot scd0:kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/scd0 (FAILS because .iso image of
RH6 available from ftp.AlphaLinux.org doesn't include dev/ bin/ usr/ etc.
links in the image, so there is no /dev/console)

The specifif RAM-disk related error message is:
"Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0"

The RAM-disk floppy has been built two ways: "rawrite" with the 6.0 CD's
ramdisk.img, as well as "rawrite" with the ramdisk.img from RedHat's
updates/ directory.  Yes, I've tried different floppy-disks.

Q. Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?
Q. Does it matter if I use the DOSutil "rawrite" under WinNT to make my
disks?  The OS-floppy works fine, so it seems to work...
Q. Is there an ISO image which includes /dev/console and such, so that I can
boot/install straight from the CD-ROM?
Q. Should I even be bothering with RedHat 6.0, or should I:
a) Wait for RedHat 6.1?
b) Use SuSE instead?
Q. When should I use sr0 vs. scd0 as a device name?

I wanted to get this beast up and running THIS weekend, so buying an Alpha
distribution isn't really my solution right now.

Thanks for ANY help - e-mail is appreciated!
--
Brian King
CodePoet Computing
WinUAE Maintainer

I have personally used

boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

or

boot -t iso9660 scd0:kernels/lx164.gz root=/dev/scd0

Quote:

> The specifif RAM-disk related error message is:
> "Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0"

Sounds like a bad floppy....

Quote:

> The RAM-disk floppy has been built two ways: "rawrite" with the 6.0 CD's
> ramdisk.img, as well as "rawrite" with the ramdisk.img from RedHat's
> updates/ directory.  Yes, I've tried different floppy-disks.

> Q. Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?

Yes. 4 bad floppies later....

Quote:> Q. Does it matter if I use the DOSutil "rawrite" under WinNT to make my
> disks?  The OS-floppy works fine, so it seems to work...

rawrite should work I always did a

cp image.foo /dev/fd0

under Linux

Quote:> Q. Is there an ISO image which includes /dev/console and such, so that I can
> boot/install straight from the CD-ROM?

There should be a live directory to do this.

Quote:> Q. Should I even be bothering with RedHat 6.0, or should I:
> a) Wait for RedHat 6.1?

Go ahead and wait for 6.1 6.0 Had holes from one side to another in fact
6.0 was the biggest

If you use redaht 6.0 go straight to redhat ftp site and get the alpha
and noarch rpms and update
your system. (Remember to get the noarch rpms.) Without this nothig
really works right

Quote:> b) Use SuSE instead?

Never tried it.

Quote:> Q. When should I use sr0 vs. scd0 as a device name?

As far as I know sr0 is no longer supporeted at least since RH 5.2.
I would always use scd0

Quote:

> I wanted to get this beast up and running THIS weekend, so buying an Alpha
> distribution isn't really my solution right now.

> Thanks for ANY help - e-mail is appreciated!
> --
> Brian King
> CodePoet Computing
> WinUAE Maintainer

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