Re: Gentoo on Alpha DS25

There seems to be scattered reports of people not
being able to boot the 2005.0 LiveCD. It would be
great if we could all collaborate and see if there is
something in common in all these cases. I'm willing to
do my part, but I'll probably need some guidance
debugging the boot process. I have access to two
machines I have not been able to boot 2005.0 on: an
old XL366 ("white box", MILO only) and a not quite as
old XP1000 500Mhz (currently running Tru64 UNIX). Both
boxes hang during boot at roughly the same place,
though I am not sure where exactly.

Jeff D

--- Bryan Oestergaard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:47:03AM +0000, Valerio
> Daelli wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > we are trying to install Gentoo on an Alpha Server
> DS25, using the 
> > universal CD for  Alpha.
> > We are not able to install since the kernel
> doesn't boot.
> > We will try to build a Gentoo installation CD
> starting from a Red Hat 
> > already installed.
> > Anyone already tried that?
> > Anyone any suggestion for kernel compile?
> > Thanks
> > 
> Hi Valerio.
> 
> Have you tried booting the 2.4 kernel? boot
> <cd-device> -fl 1. As far as
> I know the 2.4 kernel should work fine on your DS25.
> Alternatively you
> can use the 1.4rcX livecd found in /experimental
> with the 2005.0 stages,
> following the handbook as usual.
> 
> If that doesn't work for some reason, there's an
> alternative
> installation guide on http://www.gentoo.org that
> shows how to do various
> 'alternative' types of installation.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Bryan Østergaard
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> 



		
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