Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use SRM but I had the same problem. You need to do what Pixel suggests, after formating your harddrive in the Mandrake install, you need to exit the install, reboot, begin the install again and don't format it the second time. This should solve the filesystem problems. (Mine is PWS 433) Good luck. Let me know if you get your FTP and Telnet servers up. I could never get them to work with the Mandrake 7.0 distro for Alpha. BTW: the 7.1 beta of Alpha release will be soon released. And yes here i have : (chmou@vador)[~]-% telnet 192.168.1.142 Trying 192.168.1.142... Connected to 192.168.1.142. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to localhost.localdomain Linux Mandrake release 7.1b (hydrogen) Kernel 2.2.15-12mdk on an alpha login: (chmou@vador)[~]-% telnet 192.168.1.142 ftp Trying 192.168.1.142... Connected to 192.168.1.142. Escape character is '^]'. 220 localhost.localdomain FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Thu May 25 12:31:53 CEST 2000) ready. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: BTW: the 7.1 beta of Alpha release will be soon released. What's the status on Mandrake for PowerPC? I've heard rumblings about it on this list before... -- David Hart Vincity Design *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the status on Mandrake for PowerPC? I've heard rumblings about it on this list before... Adam know more about this, we currently working and try to finish it the soon as possible. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
2) After the install, I can not boot the system from milo. I can no longer do a "ls sda1:", I get... % % I don't know what that means. I was able to boot with the following... milo boot scd0:/boot/v.gz root=/dev/sda1 But this is not an excellent long term solution. Any ideas why the milo that easily booted redhat 6.0 and 6.2 will not boot Mandrake 7.0? And why it can no longer ls the fiesystem? if i remember right, the pb is milo not handling current ext2. Very true. RedHat formats it's partitions so milo can "see" on them. The trick is to get the install going, let mandrake format the partitions (then the devices are visible to you) and then climb into the shell and format them yourself, with the right options -bs 1024 -O none I beleive. Once reformatted, restart the install. This time round don't let mandrake format the partition. This applies to the partition which is carrying the kernel. Once the kernel is up and running, it can see sparse superblock formatted partitions. Me thinks we need to put this info somewhere in a FAQ, and maybe help the milo people to get sparse superblock support in (long-term). regards, Stefan
[Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
Hello all, I have just finished installing alpha 7.0 on my DEC XL 333 alpha (system type: Alcor). I replaced my Red Hat 6.2 which booted OK. My install went well except for... 1) the make boot disk setup did not work. 2) After the install, I can not boot the system from milo. I can no longer do a "ls sda1:", I get... % % I don't know what that means. I was able to boot with the following... milo boot scd0:/boot/v.gz root=/dev/sda1 But this is not an excellent long term solution. Any ideas why the milo that easily booted redhat 6.0 and 6.2 will not boot Mandrake 7.0? And why it can no longer ls the fiesystem? Also, I am not a member of this email list, so please email me directly. Thanks -Darren Crane -Darren Crane |"The future is no place [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to place your better days." | http://www.indigoridge.com/ | -Dave Matthews
Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
Darren Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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2) After the install, I can not boot the system from milo. I can no
longer do a "ls sda1:", I get...
%
%
I don't know what that means. I was able to boot with the following...
milo boot scd0:/boot/v.gz root=/dev/sda1
But this is not an excellent long term solution. Any ideas why the milo
that easily booted redhat 6.0 and 6.2 will not boot Mandrake 7.0?
And why it can no longer ls the fiesystem?
if i remember right, the pb is milo not handling current ext2.
here is a quote from Stefan van der Eijk:
All the milo's don't see andything on sdc2 with mandrake installed
("ls sdc2:/" gives nothing, "ls sdc2:/boot/ gives "path component
is not a directory"). With RH6.1 I can list the files in
the directories...
And you set ext2 on these partitions from a Mandrake installer?
And they are using something like e2fsprogs-1.18 or e2fsprogs-1.17?
I think that I may know what this can be.
New 'mke2fs' creates file systems with 'sparse superblock' and, above
some size limit (don't remember now precisely) with 4096 blocks. You
can see these parameters with 'tune2fs -l device'. As milos are
usually based on older kernels they do not know how to read such file
systems. 'aboot' may have the same problems. Thus ext2 partition on
which your kernel lives should be created with '-b 1024 -O none'. Red
Hat installer is aware about this. "Filesystem features" can be
changed with tune2fs but to change a block size one has to reformat.
Drop your kernel on a FAT partition with milo and this should solve
that as it will be the readable to milo. On x86 lilo does not suffer
as a boot code does not know anything about file systems at all.
It loads from absolute disk locations.
This mail could hold the key to why milo can't see anything on the
"mandrake formatted drive".
Re: [Cooker] DEC Alpha XL install milo
I use SRM but I had the same problem. You need to do what Pixel suggests, after formating your harddrive in the Mandrake install, you need to exit the install, reboot, begin the install again and don't format it the second time. This should solve the filesystem problems. (Mine is PWS 433) Good luck. Let me know if you get your FTP and Telnet servers up. I could never get them to work with the Mandrake 7.0 distro for Alpha. James -- James Fowler Graduate Student Political Science Latin America Arizona State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 22088266 - On Wed, 31 May 2000, Darren Crane wrote: Hello all, I have just finished installing alpha 7.0 on my DEC XL 333 alpha (system type: Alcor). I replaced my Red Hat 6.2 which booted OK. My install went well except for... 1) the make boot disk setup did not work. 2) After the install, I can not boot the system from milo. I can no longer do a "ls sda1:", I get... % % I don't know what that means. I was able to boot with the following... milo boot scd0:/boot/v.gz root=/dev/sda1 But this is not an excellent long term solution. Any ideas why the milo that easily booted redhat 6.0 and 6.2 will not boot Mandrake 7.0? And why it can no longer ls the fiesystem? Also, I am not a member of this email list, so please email me directly. Thanks -Darren Crane -Darren Crane |"The future is no place [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to place your better days." | http://www.indigoridge.com/ | -Dave Matthews
