On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Robert Garron wrote: > > 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: > > *** the Adaptec AHA-2944UW - ultra wide differential scsi card is NOT > supported in the BIOS of Alpha Server 4000 and 4100's
I know nothing about Alphas, so my questions will be of generic how-to-get-the-beast-to-boot nature rather than 'ideally...'. What hardware do you have that the bios will boot? Does the box have a floppy or CD that will boot? Will a grub-disk of some sort work? Can you make a boot CD with a boot-loader and kernel that then points to the root directory on the hard drive? What about net-booting? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
