[wplug] [OT] Booting Linux on a Compaq AlphaPC?
Alheid, Gregory
alheidgj at upmc.edu
Wed Jul 30 10:14:01 EDT 2003
Me and a co-worker are installing RH 7.2 on an Alpha 433
workstation.
>From my Alpha knowledgeable co-worker I get this guidance;
First, instead of "set os_type nt" we are doing
"set os_type unix"
After that, at the SRM ">>>" prompt, enter
sho device
You will see a "DK..." device, it will indicate a CD-ROM
or if older a "RRD..." device for the CD-ROM.
b <device_name> <== should work.
We are having problems with the video on 433, so we had
to do a text install;
b <device_name> -fl single
You will come to a "aboot>" prompt, either a ? (or help)
will show a selection of possible boot options.
Did a "typical LINUX install" but we are having problems
with configuring for XFree86. We will be trying a different
video card "real soon now" to see if that helps.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:apapadop at cmu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:29 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] [OT] Booting Linux on a Compaq AlphaPC?
Has anyone wrestled with this kind of beast? I have a couple of Compaq
AlphaPC
264DPs and I'm trying to convince them to boot KNOPPIX or at least tomsrbtd.
The manual claims that typing "set os_type nt" in the console and rebooting
will do the trick, but it doesn't seem so... I still don't get a chance to
reach the traditional BIOS utility, but am instead tossed to the SRM
console.
Anyone know how to tell it to boot from CD?
TIA
-A
--
http://andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc
3DAD 8435 DB52 F17B 640F D78C 8260 0CC1 0B75 8265
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://penguin.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/attachments/20030730/e71deae3/attachment-0001.html
More information about the wplug
mailing list