Hello Steve, Thank you. I really appreciate it. It seems not much attention has been drawn since I filed the report.
Newton On 10/18/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi n p, > > I'm forwarding this report to the debian-alpha mailing list, where it's > likely to get more attention from folks who might be familiar with the > particularities of this hardware. > > Thanks, > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:36:59PM -0400, n p wrote: > > Package: debian-40r1-alpha-CD-1.iso and > > debian-40r1-alpha-kde-CD-1.isoinstallation-reports (tried both iso) > > > > Boot method: CD-rom via SRM console (V5.7-83) > > Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/a;pha/iso-cd/ > > Date: 2007-10-08 and 2007-10-10 (each iso CD-rom respectively) > > > > Machine: DEC AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 RM > > Processor: (see Machine above) > > Memory: 1024 Meg of System Memory (from SRM show memory command) > > Partitions: 2 GBytes SCSI disk x 3; all 3 were detected during > partitioning > > phase but only the first drive was used by the default set-up > > > > Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: (do not understand this question) > > Not sure if the following information is helpful: the console > displayed > > these lines after bus probe on power up > > > > bus 2, slot 0 -- pka -- QLogic ISP10x0 > > bus 2, slot 1 -- pkb -- NCP 53C810 > > bus 0, slot 12 -- ewa -- DECchip 21041-AA > > bus 0, slot 13 -- tga -- DECchip ZLXp 21030 > > > > Base System Installation Checklist: > > > > Initial boot: OK > > Detect network card: OK > > Configure network: OK > > Detect CD: OK > > Load installer modules: OK > > Detect hard drives: OK > > Partition hard drivers: OK - only one out of three was partitioned by > the > > installer using guided partitioning > > Install base system: OK > > Clock/timezone setup: OK > > User/password setup: OK > > Install tasks: OK > > Install boot loader: OK > > Overall install: not sure - see below > > > > Comments/Problems: > > > > Booting and installing from the CD seemed to be all right until > instructed > > to reboot the server. Only default values from the installer were used > (I > > am very new to Linux installation) > > Upon reboot, the server booted into the aboot after typing boot from the > SRM > > >>> prompt. > > Got "Welcome to aboot 0.9b ....." and the aboot> prompt. > > Typed in 0 and the following was shown: > > > > aboot: loading uncompressed vmlinuz... > > aboot: loading compressed vmlinuz... > > aboot: zero-filling 869018 bytes at 0xfffffc0001715ec6 > > aboot: loading initrd (6384427 bytes/6234 blocks) at 0xfffffc003f8a6000 > > aboot: starting kernet vmlinuz with arguments ro root=/dev/sda3 > > > > After this point the keyboard LEDs (Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock) > > would flash a few times, then the screen/console became frozen. No > further > > activities. > > Tried left-Alt F4, left-Alt F2, nothing happened. > > > > The machine was working before only the os was too old (Digital UNIX > 3.2g). > > Tried both the Debian first iso CD-rom and the KDE iso CD-rom, both had > the > > same problem. > > > > Would someone be kind enough to help please? Thank you very much in > > advance. >
