DU 4.0b Install Problem on AlphaStation 200 4/166

From: Michel-Ange Camhi <camhi_at_ec-lille.fr>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 05:05:13 +0100

We have the Installation CD-ROM of Digital Unix 4.0b and want to install it
on an AlphaStation 200 4/166 which is at the moment under DU 3.2c . We
updated the firmware to 6.6-1.
We boot on the CD-ROM with boot dka0 (the system HD is on dka 100 and the
user disk is dka200), then:
* it reads the boot blocks on the CD
* it loads the kernel (vmunix loaded)
* it issues the sizes:
Sizes :
text :4769280
data : 1253168
bss : 2497296
loading SIOP : script 800200, reg 82000000, data 40844180

* it lists the devices
* and then
panic (cpu0) : rmalloc
DUMP : No primary swpa, no explicit dumpdev
 Nowhere to put header, giving up.

halt code = 5
PC=...
>>>

Why cant the Official Installation CDROM of DU 4.0b boot correctly?!!

Thanks a lot in advance,
Philippe Girolami
Michel-Ange Camhi
Ecole Centrale de Lille
Received on Sun Nov 23 1997 - 05:20:45 NZDT

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