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Hi fellow Multia owner!

I've not tried Mandrake, but you're not the first person to post here lately
about it.  I am running Red Hat Linux 6.0 on one of my Multia's, but I will be
updating it soon to 6.1, 6.0 is too buggy.  I'm going to try NetBSD in the next
few weeks. I'll keep you updated as I go along.  Let me know if you have any
success with Mandrake.
I've got 3 Multias, one running Linux, one running WinNT4.0 and the third I'm
trying to get OpenVMS to run, but it's taking more time than I thought.

Tom Crabtree

Quote:> Hi all,
>     I have this problem with my multia and mandrake and I was hoping someone
> here could help. I went through most of the "standard multia stuff" on this
> box... firmware, nvram battery.... Mandrake 7 will not boot from srm .. I
> have tried booting from the floppy and the CD. I get 9 errors and then I get
> "aboot ok: starting kernel". The system then halts. :(

> This is my first alpha install.. is this distro just a waste of time? Should
> I go xBSD. Help a brother out :)

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> cannon. -Dilbert-

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Hi all,
    I have this problem with my multia and mandrake and I was hoping someone
here could help. I went through most of the "standard multia stuff" on this
box... firmware, nvram battery.... Mandrake 7 will not boot from srm .. I
have tried booting from the floppy and the CD. I get 9 errors and then I get
"aboot ok: starting kernel". The system then halts. :(

This is my first alpha install.. is this distro just a waste of time? Should
I go xBSD. Help a brother out :)

Time is like a doughnut shot from cannon. Only without the doughnut and the
cannon. -Dilbert-

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it seems to be a waste of time, I've installed successfully Red Hat 5
and 6 but Madrake 7 refuses to boot, I think no one tested it on a
Multia.

IMHO the boot kernel (intboot.gz) is not compatible with the Multia
and no other kernel is available.

Think I wasted a week to download the iso image... :(

Ditto, I have the same problem!

Agh!  I was beginning to suspect that it was a bad/incompatible kernel
on the install CD, but wasn't absolutely sure.  Whether I tried to
install from a CD, network, boot directly from SRM or ARC console, all
paths led to a frozen system.

Is there any way to compile a working multia-compatible kernel and use
it to replace the bootinst.gz file?  How hard would it be to cross
compile an Alpha kernel from my x86 system?

It'd be a bit of a hassle, but I figure one could then copy the mandrake
CD to disk, replace the bootinst.gz file, and burn the whole thing onto
a new CD (or maybe just do a network install).

Of course, I could just get my hands on RedHat 6.2, but I'm not ready to
throw in the towel just yet...

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