Thanks to all for their help, but I must hang my head in shame and admit
that, though "yesterday" everything worked, It turned out that it was my
CD-ROM drive flaking out. Once it was replaced, it worked as
advertised.
-Jim
>Hello. For a while I have been messing with Linux, until I bought an
>older version of DEC Unix 4.0a. I am now trying to install it on my
>AlphaStation 200 with not a lot of success. I have updated the firmware
>with the cd that shipped with the set, that seemed to work ok. I then
>started to boot from the OS cd... Now, at this point, I am not sure if
>this is normal, but while it is "booting" it tells me that device dka300
>is not ready while the cd tracks... But, after a while, it starts up.
>Right after it switches video mode, it dies with the following error:
>
>Panic (cpu0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>syncing disks... done
>Dump: No primary swap, no explicit dumpdev
> Nowhere to put header, giving up
>
>cp - SAVE_TERM routine to be called
>cp - SAVE_TERM exited with hlt_req=1 r0= 00000000.00000000
>halted cpu0
>halt code=5
>halt instruction executed pc=fffffc0000405040
>
>I am using the commands that are in the book for booting off of a cd
>which is:
>>>>boot dka300
>I seem to remember when I installed Linux on this machine, that, even
>though the book said, "Just type this..." I ended up having to add a
>flag or two telling it where the hdd was. I can find no reference to
>what that flag might be.
Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 17:34:07 NZDT