On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Robert Garron wrote: > To Whom It May Concern at Debian: > > First -- Love the release 4.0r1 -- best yet! Used Debian on 32 bit before. > > Next, not sure who to report this to and/or ask the question, as I am > relatively new to using the Debian site (used Redhat and SuSe in past), > anyway hopefully I have the right people I am e-mailing to in Debian ---> > > The issue is booting Debian Disk1 KDE on an Alpha Server 4000 5/400 system > -- after many iterations and contortions with different Ultra Wide > Differential SCSI controllers -- I was able to utilize an Adaptec > AHA-2944UW controller card to have Debian locate a disk and complete a full > installation 99% successfully. > > The last 1% is the booting of the formated, file system created, installed > Debian system which does NOT boot with the AHA-2944UW controller because > the driver for this card is in the distribution and thus found a disk > during the cdrom boot process, but the Alpha BIOS does NOT know about this > card so any "auto" boot sequence is out of the question... So reporting to > Debian my experience(s) is that: > Hi Robert, welcome to Debian! two place to look: http://lists.debian.org mentions: debian-alpha mailing list (for alpha issues) debian-boot mailing list (for boot issues) also if you go to http://wiki.debian.org, search for alpha, there are 2 good hits there.
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