Can you boot with bf24 ? I don't know if that is an option for the alpha, but you can give it try.
i would disconnect the second hdd, install with 2.2.20, switch to 2.4.x and reconnect the hdd. Building boot-floopies will take much much more. I did that several times. Ionut On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:25:18PM -0300, Marcio Gustavo Di Vernieri Cuppari wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install debian woody on a Compaq XP 1000. Tried te CD but > the ssytem freezes when probing the second SCSI disk. I tried a floppy > instalation with the same problem. > > Also tried to compile a kernel for this machine (2.4.22) and this time > there was no problem probing the SCSI hardware (the SCSI controller is a > Qlogic ISP1020 and the problem was solved using the iqslogic module). > > The probelma now is when using the root disk it gives a lot of weird > messages about no being able to find the tail comand. I think the > problem is that the root disk was created for a 2.2.20 kernel. > > Does anyone know how to create the install floppies from scratch? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you * can do anything the computer is able to do."