Re: Newbie Question

Linus Gasser (ineiti@urbanet.ch)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:54:57 +0000

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?
Hi,
as some people asked me, I'll rewrite it in plain ascii ;-) (<- is a
smiling face, if you turn it by -Pi/2)
On my alpha I have to write
boot hda5:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda5
but I think you'll have to write hda2. IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) MILO
(MIni LOader) uses hda1, so your Linux-partition uses hda2. If this
doesn't work, go and see in the startup-screen, somewhere you can find
the harddisk-mapping. In the menu where you can repartition your HD...
BTW (By The Way): What kind of error-message do you get?

Greets

Linus

PS: Sorry 4 my #-KeyPad writing...