[rescue] Alphastuff

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:30:04PM +0100, roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:
> Second, I've been having some problems with my Alphaserver. It's an 
>Alphaserver 300 4/266 with 320Mb ram. Since the original 2Gb disk was a bit 
>small for Tru64, I sawed some bits of the case and now there's a 80Gb Maxtor 
>IDE drive inside :). 
> 
> The drive is correctly recognised by both the Tru64 installer and the SRM (it
>show up in the devices list as a Maxtor drive). When I boot from cd-rom, I can
>install the OS on the drive. I now have a complete install of Tru64 V5.0 on 
>this drive. However when I try to boot from this drive, I get an error "failed
>to open dka100.1.0.6.0". The SRM firmware I'm running is C7.0-a MAR 18 1999.
> 
> I'm guessing that the problem is that the SRM firmware can't boot from drives
>larger than X Gb and that my drive is too large, can anyone confirm this? Of 
>course a solution would be to boot from a smaller scsi drive, but I would like
>to use only 1 drive. Is there maybe some workaround by partitioning drives ora
>firmware upgrade? I've been searching on the web, but couldn't find anything 
>relevant.

Based on the age of the machine, I'm guessing that it might be the old 8.4gig
limit haunting you, although being able to install the OS seems to contradict
that. One common trick in the PC world would be to create a partition just a 
hair smaller than 8.4gigs and see if that will work correctly.  If so, you
might be able to then use the rest of the drive on partitions not needed for 
booting.  For the longest time, linux could use large IDE drives, but the
kernel had to be within the first 2 gigs of the drive.




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Joshua D. Boyd