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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After installing REDHAT on an Alpha Server 1000RM, It wouldn't boot at all! I finally found a copy of MILO that was supposed to run on it, and quickly installed it.. Trouble is, MILO won't boot properly... Here is the message I get at the prompt after typing</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"MILO> boot sda1:/boot/vmlinux-2.2.13-0.9"</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.....
ncr53c810-0-<3,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector=512 bytes. Sectors- 4110480 [2007 MB] [2.0 GB]
partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 <sda5>
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
attempt to access beyond end of device
08:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1
dev 08:02 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
08:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=1
dev 08:02 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 08:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can anyone see what is happening here? Is there anything I can do to stop it mounting the drive? I have two of these machines, one booting from the ARC console, the other through SRM, both giving the exact same result.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TIA,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Phil
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PS : Thanks for the info last post Colin.</FONT>
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