Re: AlphaStation 200 (Mustang) won't boot 2004.3 liveCD (resolved)

Marnix Arnold wrote:

> . This will probably work just fine with the 2004.3 stages; I don't think
> you are restricted to the 1.4rc1 stages just because you use the 1.4rc1
> liveCD.

I have successfully installed gentoo on this Alphastation 200 using the
1.4rc1 LiveCD and a 2004.3 stage 1 tarball.

> When (not if! ;-) you build your own kernel, you may want to be careful
> around video options initially since your problems appear indeed to have
> to do with video initialization. For instance, try disabling support for
> the framebuffer console at first; just get a minimal kernel to boot on
> your machine and add nice features incrementally. I'd start from the
> alpha-sources (alpha-sources ebuild, which is the 2.4.21 kernel with loads
> of alpha-specific patches).

Well, I built the kernel and still had video problems.  I may not have
adequately sniffed out framebuffer stuff.  I dunno.  I think the
framebuffer works, though -- since I saw it work on the Compaq JumpStart
CD.

Using serial console works good, though.  I configured SRM to use the serial
console as well.  This is how I want to use the computer long-term, as
well.

Therefore, I'm going to leave the video problem unresolved.  I plan to use
this box as a server -- so getting the serial console and ssh working were
the important parts.  :-)

Anybody know of an install database where I should post an install report?

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