Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> mkbootdisk failed
>
> on console alt-f3: exec of mkbootdisk failed: no such file or directory.
> lilo.pm line 51.
>
> I beleive there is no such thing as mkbootdisk for the alpha
> (arch-excluded).
yep, i'm going to fix this... by adding mkbootdisk :)
with the patched aboot, it works, aka you can give an initrd.
>
> 2) Install bootloader:
> Q: Do you want to use aboot?
> A: Yes.
>
> What it then does / is supposed to do is not clear to me...
quite simple:
run_program::rooted($o->{prefix}, "swriteboot", $b->{boot}, "/boot/bootlx");
run_program::rooted($o->{prefix}, "abootconf", $b->{boot}, $b->{part_nb});
output "$o->{prefix}/etc/aboot.conf",
map_index { "$::i:$b->{part_nb}$_ root=$b->{root} $b->{perImageAppend}\n" }
map { /$o->{prefix}(.*)/ } eval { glob_("$o->{prefix}/boot/vmlinux*") };
aka execs swriteboot, abootconf and create aboot.conf
>
> 3) Configure X:
> I chose "Iiyama 9017ET". I then got the following error:
> no valid modes found
> try with another videocard or monitor.
>
> Alt-F1: VertRefresh
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Horizontal sync value expected.
>
> Alt-F3: warning X probeonly failed at /usr/.....
>
> I then tried the "default" 1024x768 monitor and that worked fine.
> This could mean that it's not an alpha related problem.
yep, quite strange. Can you give me the bad XF86Config?
[...]
> I then wanted to boot using the following milo paramters:
> boot sdc3:/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc3
>
> It then shows:
> boot/vmlinuz path component is not a directory
> Failed to load the kernel.
don't know what the problem is :(
no alphabios here to test with
