Re: Updated installation images 2019-01-20

Michael Cree <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.alpha
Message-ID <20190510210345.kmm3tlyimlejylux@tower>
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:31:02PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 5/10/19 21:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > On May 10, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Skye <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I was able to boot from CDROM and the loading ran fine until it got to the
> > > hardware discovery phase.  It was unable to find the CD-ROM hardware. My
> > > AlphaStations all have the Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM player.
> 
> Good to hear that! Last time I tested Debian GNU/Linux Sid (not the
> installer!) on my older AlphaStations with EV4(5) they hang during
> kernel boot. Looks like I should give them another try with the current
> kernel and userland. Thanks for the encouraging information. :-)

Yes, the generic kernel has been fixed and uploaded into the archive.
It should now boot correctly.

Cheers,
Michael.
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