Trouble loading RH 6.2 on DEC AlphaServer 1000 4/233

From: George Beranek (gberanek@anl.gov)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 17:18:21 EST


     Please give me a hint. I've poured over the documentation and the
HOW-TO's and have run out of ideas.

     I have a DEC AlphaServer 1000 4/233 with V5.4-101 firmware and all
the latest I/O option firmware as well. I need to load linux on this
machine. I am attempting to load RedHat 6.2

If I use SRM to try to boot from either the kernel floppy:
>>> boot dva0 -flags 0 or CD #1
>>> boot dka400 -file /kernels/generic.gz -flags root=/dev/scd0
the system begins comming up without error, and goes into aboot then
ALWAYS:

aboot: loading compressed kernels/generic.gz...
aboot: ok, now starting the kernel...

halted CPU 0

halt code = 6
double error halt
PC = fffffc000031b24c <-- every time so

Now if I try to use ARC (NT) and MILO (unsupported, but the CD has
/milo/mikasa.gz and /milo/images/mikasa.img and the AlphaServer 1000 4/233
"is" mikasa) after setting up and confirming the ARC floppy boot selector
without error booting from MILO FLOPPY ALWAYS YIELDS:

System Partition is OSLOADPARTITION=eisa(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)
Load File Name is OSLOADFILENAME=\milo
Load Path is eisa(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\milo
OSLOADOPTIONS=

Opening file eisa(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\milo ...
Loading file at 0x80000000 ...

Getting firmware parameters ...

...Memory size is 0x8000000 bytes

Setting up arguments for Milo @ 0x801FFC00

Setting up memory size for Milo @ 0x801FFE00

Setting up memory size for Milo @ 0x801FFF00

Swapping to PALcode at 0x0 ...

and that's all she wrote. At this point the system hard freezes forever
and has to be power cycled.

Any clues, even the name of a good list to post this to or a good website
at which to do further research would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

George

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