[CentOS] 4.1 beta for Alpha platform

[Pasi Pirhonen]

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 at 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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