Avanti boot image

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@cs.arizona.edu)
Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:14:12 -0700

Can't help with the gcc-2.7.0 problem you're seeing under DEC Unix,
but I just uploaded a boot floppy image for the avanti. It's
at:

ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/bootdsk-avanti-1.3.35.img.gz

If you dump this file to a floppy (e.g., gzcat filename >/dev/fd0) you
should be able to boot from it via the command:

boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "single root=/dev/fd0 ramdisk=1440"

The vmlinux.gz on this system is a minimal kernel that has no
networking support (SCSI and floppy etc. are in there, though). Also,
CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO is enabled, so you might want to connect a terminal
at 9600 bps to /dev/cua1 to watch what's going on.

I'd be interested in hearing about success/failures with this image.

--david