vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-alpha-smp working for anyone?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Galloway
good day all ... has anyone gotten kernel-image-2.6-smp 2.6.15-8 to boot? i've been playing a bit more this morning, kernel-image-2.4.27-2-smp boots, but cannot run correctly due to udev i think, but at least boots. 2.6.15-8 fails to boot at all with what seems to be symbols errors (it runs

apt and kernel updates

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Galloway
what is the correct method to upgrade kernels via apt? i've install the smp kernel with apt and now in /boot there is: odin:/boot# ls -l total 16999 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88064 2004-09-06 01:42 bootlx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59030 2006-03-06 07:23 config-2.6.15-1-alpha-generic -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: apt and kernel updates

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Galloway
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: do i just need to move the links from 2.6.15-1-alpha-generic to 2.6.15-1-alpha-smp? How does your /etc/aboot.conf look like (or /boot/etc/aboot.conf)? Greetings Helge looks like this helge:

Re: apt and kernel updates

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Galloway
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: Aboot looks for the file [partition]/etc/aboot.conf (where parition is hardcoded into it and can be viewed and set via the abootconf program) to tell it what kernel and initrd image to load. I'm guessing you /boot is on a

Re: testing boot cd iso?

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:59:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: What version of SRM do you have? Cheers, show version reports Alpha Server ES40 v5.6-102. sarge netinst cd seems to work just fine :-\ -- michael -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: testing boot cd iso?

2006-06-07 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:23:24PM +0200, Marc Schlensog wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:59:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: What version of SRM do you have? Cheers, show version reports Alpha Server ES40 v5.6-102. sarge netinst cd seems to work just fine :-\ indeed,

testing boot cd iso?

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Galloway
is this not a bootable iso image? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/alpha/iso-cd/debian-testing-alpha-netinst.iso i built a copy today and it just drops me into aboot when i try to boot it. and l in aboot does not list any useable configurations. -- michael --

Re: DS20 Worth trying ?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Galloway
i've had debian runnin on a herd (20, but they are slowly dieing off) of ES40's for nearly two years. they are not super fast, by todays standards, but they are quite stable: uname -a Linux dove-01 2.4.26-1-smp #1 SMP Sat May 1 17:27:38 EST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux dove-01:~# uptime 07:30:13 up

Re: ds20; sarge; 2.4.27; how to I force a particular NIC driver?

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Galloway
dan ... i had the same problem with my ES40's, i just changed the /etc/modules file to load the eepro driver at boot: dove-01:/etc# more modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time,

ES40 fails to boot daily build net-install

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Galloway
good day all ... was wanting to play with current builds on one of me ES40 boxes and find it fails to boot. was using the netinstall image from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ and booting from SRM console with boot dqa0 -flags 0 boot process hangs at the

Re: ES40 fails to boot daily build net-install

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Norbert! not a problem, as i said, i was only dabbling anyway. i'll keep an eye out for the new installer. thanks! -- michael On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: Sorry, that was my fault. In a moment of insanity I changed the kernel configurations so ext2fs support was

Re: ES40 fails to boot daily build net-install

2005-02-15 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Norbert! that seems to indicating problems with MILO and the big alphas, i was using SRM and as i said, installed SID last fall without much problem :-\ -- michael On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Michael Galloway wrote: was wanting to play

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-17 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Helge! no, thats the other interesting part, master and clone will boot systemA, where the cloneing took place, neither will boot systemB or C or ... as near as i can tell all 20 are identical, there were part of one of the earlier supercomputing efforts at the lab, all the same nodes. i

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Steve! ok, so what is the real functional difference? -- michael On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: sarge is the upcoming stable release. sid is the staging ground for everything that will go into the stable release being developed at any given moment.

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
ok, i'm getting myself very confused and maybe some one can give me a sanity check. i have a number of ES40's i'm putting sarge onto. i have it installed and working fairly well. now i'm trying to clone the disk image for the rest of the ES40's, this is what i'm trying: SystemA: good install

cloneing boot disks

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
sorry, just wanted to resend this with a correct subject line :-| ok, i'm getting myself very confused and maybe some one can give me a sanity check. i have a number of ES40's i'm putting sarge onto. i have it installed and working fairly well. now i'm trying to clone the disk image for the

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Helge! maybe typos in there, the system is on serial console so i copied from my notes ... i normally boot 0 the interesting part is the clone disk boots fine on the original system, but not on either of the other systems. -- michael Helge Kreutzmann schrieb am Freitag, den 16. Juli

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Andrew! there is a build out from yesterday: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040714/ -- me On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Andrew Diller wrote: I don't see anything new at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ will the build happen today,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Andrew! i've better success on my ES40's with the 20040713 build: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/ still somewhat problematic, it installs e100 instead of eepro100, but it may work ok for you ... -- michael On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Andrew Diller wrote: hello: I

which dist?

2000-07-14 Thread Michael Galloway
good day all ... it's been suggested to my that i give debian a try on my herd of AS250's. i've been trying without success to get SuSE6.4 to boot. which dist. is the best for me to get started with, stable or potato? -- michael