I successfully installed Linux on a AlphaPC AXP 150 (JENSEN-board)
This is the way I did it:
I tried to install Linux as Paul Caffrey had suggested.
But I was not to be able to install Linux, since I added a second
Harddisk to the system.
The reason for this is minlabel. After repartitioning I have
to reboot the system to get changes to the partitiontable right.
So it seems to be impossible to install Linux with only one SCSI-device.
This is my way I did it:
1. cat jensen_bootdisk.srm >/dev/sda on the Linux-box
2. attach the SCSI-device to the Alpha and the other devices if they
were not connected (a second 1.44 Floppydisk and a second SCSI-harddisk)
3. boot as Paul Caffrey suggested with
boot -fl "root=/dev/fd1" dkaxxx
4. run minlabel on the other SCSI device and write the partiton-table
(the other SCSI-device is the one you were NOT booting from)
5. boot the system as in step 3
6. now do a mke2fs on the newly made partition
(if it was /dev/sdb and you have chosen the default-settings from
minlabel the you should enter mke2fs /dev/sdb2)
7. mount the new filesystem
8. follow the installation-guide
I was not sure which partition I should choose to cpboot to.
I tried /dev/sdb where /dev/sda was my booting-device. It worked.
I have to boot now "boot -fl "root=/dev/sdb2" dka100"
Thanks to Paul Caffrey and Kazushige Goto for their helpfull hints!
Richard
-- richard (Richard Froehning) richard@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de