Hi,
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:39:24AM -0500, User Lists wrote:
Hi Pasi,
I am running SRM on this machine (but I can use ARC/AlphaBIOS if it is necesary, au model). I have do it a test: I have downloaded vmlinux.gz file from beta.centos.org and when I try to decompress on a i386 machine gives me this error:
"gzip: vmlinux.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated".
Are you trying to boot the vmlinux.gz w/o aboot? Ie. directly from the SRM-promt?
As i didn't 'violate' still the installation generation process, there is not that small boot.iso even included. I am not sure if i can fit this on 3xCD anymore, if i make one for use.
So sadly one needs to get full CD1 and use that for booting after burning it to some CD-R/RW media and boot like
boot dqa0
or which ever is the is the CD-device on box.
I am not too familiar still with the netbooting and i am not sure if the generic.img would be netbootable.
I try to decompress on another Alpha machine that has a debian sarge installed, end the error it is the same. But when I download this kernel image from AlphaCore (Fedora based alpha distro), error does not exists neither in the Intel or Alpha box ... Is this kernel image corrupt from some reason???
I am actually useing the bery same aboot/kernel than AlphaCore 1.0 (that FC3-based version), so there should not be any differences on booting and the boxes that is working.
I am middle of making CentOS-4/s390 now as i do have access to LPAR and the box is literally eating huge amounts of electricity, so i try to get that done as fast as the box can compile it for me :)
After that i am looking the alpha version again to start polishing it a bit.
What information do you need??
That was about it, i think. You're using SRM as you should be.
--- Pasi Pirhonen upi@iki.fi escribió:
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:40:04PM -0500, User Lists wrote:
Hi all,
I have tried to install this beta release on PWS
433
au but I can not boot /kernels/vmlinux.gz image.
Error
is: "unsupported compressed image". Is not posible
to
install under this Alpha model??
I really don't know as i never has such model myself. You do have SRM running on that box? If it's ARC/AlphaBIOS based, i am not even thinking of touching that area anymore :/
what's woth for 'normal boot method', it's just that one does
boot <some device>
(preferrable with 'set boot_osflags ""' so that it won't start something with automagic).
The 'l' does bring the list of predefined targets which are selected just with the prefixing number.
One is free to use domething like
b /kernels/vmlinux.gz initrd=/images/cdrom.img <a
lot of own flags>
if needed. (for example the 'console=ttyS0 text askmethod' is something i need :)
So short: a little more details?
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