Hi all, I need some help, it seems that I cannot get linux to boot on this machine. I will start from the beginning: I have srm console v5.6-2, and with the debian 2.1 alpha cd in the ide cd-rom, I configured it to boot the linux image from the cd boot/sx164/linux, which it does and goes into the aboot loader version 0.5, and starts to load the kernel. Well when I get to the partition check during the kernel load the drive keeps doing a irq-timeout until it just gives up and needs to be rebooted, and I have not gotten any further. I believe I have done everything right as far as setting up the boot parameters: >>>show boot* boot_dev dqa0.0.0.108.0 boot_file boot/sx164/linux boot_osflags root=/dev/hdb2 boot_reset on bootdef_dev dqa0.0.0.108.0 booted_dev booted_file booted_osflags >>> Now why is my ide disk timing out? I don't know, the drive works fine with tru64,nt. And shows no errors on my intel slackware box (which I used to partition and setup the ext2 file systems). So I am at a loss. I don't know, maybe I am not even booting this thing the right way, before I kept getting kernel panic's because it could not open a display, now I am getting this, and who knows maybe if I get by the irq time-out thing fixed, it may just error with the display problem. I do have a matrox millennia, and a diamond stealth64 for this box. So I will cross that bridge when I get to it.
Well thanks for hearing me out, and if you have any solutions and or advice, it is all appreciated! Thanks, Jim
