Installation question

George (hedon@nycport.com)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:31:44 +0000

I posted this question several days ago, but I think I didn't
elaborate enough, so let me pull for the different end.
We've acquired a DEC Alpha "500a" with NT on it; first think
I did was hitting the "format thoroughly " button and wacked
NT.
Now I attempted to install RH Linux 5.0 on it. I successfully
install MILO, then I tried to boot image (that's miata , is there
any problem with miata?) and I can see the vmlinux.gz being
unzipped and after that the only output I can see on my screen is
this :

Bootline is boot boot device=fd0 bootfile=vmlinux.gz
root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
Bootstrap complete , kernel @ (and some hexadecimals)
turning on virtual addressing and jumping to the linux
kernel
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And from here the output seems to be redirect to ??? serial port or
elsewhere, cause the screen is blank , however I am dead sure that
the installation continues. Any clues ?? I am dead from the neck up
on this.
The box has SCSI controller - QLogic ISP1020, 256 of RAM.
We'd like to try some heavy duty graphics on this and I'd hate
to reinstall NT . (BTW the graphic card is PowerStorm 4D 60T
and takes up two PCI slots , has its own fans and 32MB of
RAM and I think we could create some nice graphics with
this)
I'll be really grateful for some enlightenments on this.
Sincerely

George Klimes
NYCPORT Networks "The Purveyor of Bandwidth"
www.nycport.com
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