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On Monday 06 December 2004 01:39 am, Marnix Arnold wrote: |
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> Have you tried to connect a serial terminal to your AlphaStation |
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> (I'm assuming it has a serial port)? If you do get a console prompt |
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> there, you probably have a video card problem. Has your |
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> AlphaStation ever run Linux before? |
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Tried to connect serial port. Didn't work. However, it *did* work |
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using the JumpStart disk. |
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> You also may want to try to boot from an older LiveCD, e.g., |
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> 1.4rc1-test4, that may have the legacy boot option, which works |
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> with most alphas. I haven't used this LiveCD myself since 2004.x |
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> works very well on my XLT-300 (amazingly ;-). |
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The jumpstart disk (using aboot 0.7) worked. I just have to come up |
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with a new gentoo installation strategy. It's geared toward RedHat, |
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SUSE, Debian, etc. |
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but looks like the problem is (at least partially) with 2004.3. I'll |
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poke around the mirrors for an 1.4rc1-test4. |
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