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From: "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabriel@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] AlphaStation 200 (Mustang) won't boot 2004.3 liveCD
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 03:02:12
Message-Id: 200412062101.38914.gabriel@teuton.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] AlphaStation 200 (Mustang) won't boot 2004.3 liveCD by Marnix Arnold
1 On Monday 06 December 2004 01:39 am, Marnix Arnold wrote:
2
3 > Have you tried to connect a serial terminal to your AlphaStation
4 > (I'm assuming it has a serial port)? If you do get a console prompt
5 > there, you probably have a video card problem. Has your
6 > AlphaStation ever run Linux before?
7
8 Tried to connect serial port. Didn't work. However, it *did* work
9 using the JumpStart disk.
10
11 > You also may want to try to boot from an older LiveCD, e.g.,
12 > 1.4rc1-test4, that may have the legacy boot option, which works
13 > with most alphas. I haven't used this LiveCD myself since 2004.x
14 > works very well on my XLT-300 (amazingly ;-).
15
16 The jumpstart disk (using aboot 0.7) worked. I just have to come up
17 with a new gentoo installation strategy. It's geared toward RedHat,
18 SUSE, Debian, etc.
19
20 but looks like the problem is (at least partially) with 2004.3. I'll
21 poke around the mirrors for an 1.4rc1-test4.
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Re: [gentoo-alpha] AlphaStation 200 (Mustang) won't boot 2004.3 liveCD "Gabriel M. Beddingfield" <gabriel@××××××.org>