Re: Newbie Question

Linus Gasser (ineiti@urbanet.ch)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:16:45 +0000

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Will Stewart wrote:
>
> I can't get my Alpha to boot. I had Linux (Redhat) installed at the
> install fest in Durham NC. The command I was Given was; Boot hda1: vmlinux.gz
> what am I doing wrong?
To boot my alpha, I have 2 write:
boot hda5:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda5
now I don't think u got hda5, too. But IMHO ur first partition is used 4
MILO, so it would b hda2... but don't 4get 2 tell him where the
root-filesystem is (root=).
BTW: What kind of messages does he output?

Greets

Ineiti

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