Re: [PLUG] booting on an alpha

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 07:51  PM, Molnar, Bradley wrote:
> due to hardware failure, the alpha processor machine needed to be clean
> installed.  The drive that is left was the second drive (and therefore 
> had
> no boot information).
>
> We are using red hat 7.0 because it is on there before and is at hand 
> (and
> our network is so slow right now that downloading an iso is not 
> feasible).
>
> Basically, does anyone know the final steps to installing the boot 
> loader on
> an alpha.  We followed the directions in the manual, but, they have not
> worked so far.
>
> They mention some odd commands and I have all of the partition info (I 
> am
> also able to boot he install cd fine and get to the filesystem, but, it
> won't boot.  I have also been following all of the directions from the 
> red
> hat documentation, to no avail.

Hmmm... what problems are you having...

I thought that Red Hat 7 installed directly off the CD on an Alpha.

I use SuSE and it does.

With SuSe, you just load the CD, and let it format the disk.

Or, are you saying that you don't want to re-format the second disk.
[Don't forget, you'll have to give the full path name to the SRM... 
simply saying "boot" will try to boot from the old volume.]

The primary source for Alpha Linux information is
		www.linuxalpha.org

(alphalinux.org got hijacked)

There are docs for just about everything there. Also the Alpha Linux 
mailing list is (maintained at RedHat)

Axp-list mailing list
Axp-list@redhat.com
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list


By the way... what Alpha are you using.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org

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