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After several nights of hardware configuration issues and Gentoo/doc |
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issues, she's up and running. Woo-hoo! My system is: |
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Miata 500au 500Mhz |
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1GB Mem (1x512, 2x256) |
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DEC/Symbios Logic 53c875 dual-channel FW SCSI card |
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2x4.3GB RZ29B (Seagate ST15150W) drives |
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LG CRD-8322B 32x IDE CDROM (Orig 32x Toshiba XM-6102B swapped out in |
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testing bad LiveCDs) |
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DLT7000 bare tape drive (not installed yet). |
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Here's some of the installation notes I've made (pasted from my local Wiki): |
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* The 1.4-test4 LiveCD does not work on a Miata. |
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* The 1.4-test3 LiveCD continually causes seg faults and other errors |
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when copying files from the CD to RAMdisk during the boot. In order to |
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possibly get the CD to boot after several tries: |
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1. Alpha must be at the SRM prompt (">>>"). |
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2. Make sure no commands have been entered since the last |
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init/power on. If there are, init or warmstart the Alpha. |
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3. show dev |
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4. b dka0 -flags 4 |
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5. At the aboot prompt, l |
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6. Enter "0" at the aboot prompt to boot off of the first entry |
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listed. |
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7. The file copy to RAM will still cause errors, but it should |
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ignore them. |
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8. If it still fails, start over making sure to init/warmstart |
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first. |
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9. Not sure why this sometimes works (serendipity is a wonderful |
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thing), but it did for me... |
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* Save the headaches and grab the Gentoo2004 LiveCD from the |
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experimental directory on the Gentoo mirrors. It worked without a |
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hitch. |
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* The stage1 ISO in the "mirrors" directory will not work. The |
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portage package is hosed and I could not make the reported patches |
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work. Instead grab |
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http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/experimental/alpha/stages/stage1-alpha-20040730.tar.bz2 |
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(substitute your local mirror in the URL) |
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* CFLAGS="-mieee -O3 -pipe -mcpu=ev56" |
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* Kernel |
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o gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.8-gentoo-r1) |
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o ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha" emerge -v gentoo-dev-sources |
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* aboot |
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o Package "aboot" (v0.9) will error out trying to compile. |
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o Grab 1.0 instead |
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o ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha" emerge -v aboot |
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* DO NOT USE QLOGIC ISP1020 SCSI CARD! There are many folks on various |
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lists who have complained that the driver causes FS corruption under |
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2.6 because of a lack of proper porting. |
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I've also noticed several (all?) aboot docs saying that "dqa0" denotes the |
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IDE device 0, but it's not true for all Alphas, including the Miata. OK, |
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at least *my* Miata has the IDE CDROM as device "DKA0". My two SCSI |
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drives are "DKA0" and "DKA100" (SCSI ID 0 and 1, respectively). |
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That's all. I've had a helluva (in a wierd way, fun) time getting this to |
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work. If I hadn't done several Intel/AMD Gentoo installs and if I hadn't |
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worked with DEC stuff for 10 years in a previous life, I don't know that I |
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could have pulled this off. There's several little gotchas whose answers |
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could not be found in Google, but took a little experimentation, |
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guesswork, and experience. I guess I'm hoping that someone else doing a |
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Google search on the same stuff I ran into would have one-stop shopping. |
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And now back to my 80MB emerge, already in progress. :) |
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Rich J. |
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