Re: Installation 8.1 on LX164 from ARC does not work

I finally gave up on the ARC console and moved to SRM

It took mee about 2hours to find the .ROM file required to update the 
Firmeware from ARC to SRM (Hint it is located on the ftp.digital site but 
there are no links to it you have to download it manually by searching in the 
directories.

After the update. To boot from the ISO CD-ROM is really easy.
Right now the system is installing/updating from my local FTP server with no 
crash so far.
I was able to add all the kernel modules I needed for my differnet SCSI Drives 
and it appears to work.

I will post some follow up here once the system is ready and running.
My hope is to upgrade from 7.3 with no major loss in configuration.

Klaus

On Sunday 14 December 2003 01:05 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> I have tried for the last few weeks to install Suse 8.1 on my Alpha Box but
> have never gone very far.
>
> My system is
>
> LX 164, 533mhz, 256MB ram,
> HDA1	is the IDE boot and root drive 6GB
> HDB	is the IDE CD-Rom (used for installations)
> HDD	is my largge data drive
> Dec Network Card
> Sound Blaster Card
>
> There are other devices (I removed them because they caused even more
> trouble at the instalation)
> Adaptec SCSI 2940UW	with Disks attached for data storeage (fast access
> files,streaming)
> Adaptec SCSI 1510	Attached Tape drive HP and CD-ROMS
> The system is running Suse 7.1
>
> I have the standarad ARC consomle
> I created the floppy and boot sequence as recommended
> Milo does start fine (as long as the SCSI cards are disconnected)
> boot hdb:/boot/vmlinuz /root/dev/fd0 initrd=/boot/initrd
>
> Milo does load but then I get the following lines and the sytem stops
> there.
>
> VFS Disk change detected on device 3/64
> reiserfs_read_suer can't find reserfs filesystem
> Max size 10656 log zone size 2048
> First Data zone 28 root inode number 57344
>
> Any ideas on what I could try are very welcome.
>
> Klaus Binder
>
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