Hi,
today I tried to install a 4.0b from scratch on an Alphastation 255
First I updated the firmware (via bootp) with the as255_v7_8.exe
After a power cycle there are several problems:
booting to the console shows the errormessage:
NO sound device in ISA table, skipping sound init - I had never this
error and I'm sure there is a sound card installed.
Trying to install 4.0b via a RIS-Server fails:
the machine is booting the network-kernel
but shows the warning
PowerManager failed to register CPU0 handler
and then stops with the error message:
panic (cpu0): vfs_mountroot
cannot mount root
DUMP: no primary swap, no explicit dumpdev
nowhere to put header
giving up
>>>
thereis an environment variable dumpdev but it's not set.
booting the old 3.2 system seems to work but an error message is showing
up:
Preposterous time in TOY, check and reset the date.
My questions:
how can I reinstall my soundcard?
how can I install the 4.0b via network (the machine has no CD-ROM!)?
URGENT!
thank you
--
Harald Volz
- Netzwerk- und Systemadministration -
Max-Planck-Institut f. Biologische Kybernetik
Spemannstr. 38
D- 72076 Tuebingen
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Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 11:34:01 NZDT