On Monday 06 December 2004 01:39 am, Marnix Arnold wrote:

> Have you tried to connect a serial terminal to your AlphaStation
> (I'm assuming it has a serial port)? If you do get a console prompt
> there, you probably have a video card problem. Has your
> AlphaStation ever run Linux before?

Tried to connect serial port.  Didn't work.  However, it *did* work 
using the JumpStart disk.

> You also may want to try to boot from an older LiveCD, e.g.,
> 1.4rc1-test4, that may have the legacy boot option, which works
> with most alphas. I haven't used this LiveCD myself since 2004.x
> works very well on my XLT-300 (amazingly ;-).

The jumpstart disk (using aboot 0.7) worked.  I just have to come up 
with a new gentoo installation strategy.  It's geared toward RedHat, 
SUSE, Debian, etc.

but looks like the problem is (at least partially) with 2004.3.  I'll 
poke around the mirrors for an 1.4rc1-test4.


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