Povl H. Pedersen (pope@netguide.dk)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:01:34 +0200
> So far nobody has had any luck to speak of booting from the new
>installer.coff. There have been mixed results booting from the older
>installers, and it makes me wonder how and why.
I have not had a single problem, apart from missing hardware support, with
an older installer.coff. Now, my own fails when I am at the Install/Upgrade
screen, and I can not build a new installer right now, as Make for some
reason expects to find perror.h in some strange GCC 2.6.something directory.
> At this point we can be relatively sure that uts not truly hardware
>related failures, (ie. the floppy drive not reading a floppy right) and we
>are fairly certian that it is hardware specific to the ans machines.
Yes.
> When I trace my steps back to how my machine booted the floppy with the
>older installer on it I remember I had just flushed the nvram by
>unplugging the machine and removing the battery (hint take the top off of
>the machine till we get all this done.. it saves loads of bending over and
>unscrewing the case) it booted the floppy right away.. leading me to
>believe, it either modifies itself in the pram or modifies the floppy
>somehow.
My guess is, that booting it changes some of the values. I have noticed,
that I am running with all the flags in environment vars set to false (=0).
I may be just smoking crack but this is the best I can come up
>with right now. I probably wont be able to substantiate this tomorrow (I
>am gonna call in sick) but I wantto hear from you guys to know if thats
>the cause. just in case. be prepared with the 2 external drives, 1 with
>hfs and the redhat install the other clean and ready.
> Tell me how it goes.
I have had good luck with the following:
The installer from hellfire with network (but no internal SCSI support),
installing over the Internet (I have cable at home :). Also had luck with
taking an install from my 7200, move the disk to the ANS, boot on floppy,
do a harddisk install, using the same partition as / and to hold the
downloaded RedHat distribution.
I have no problem running everything on the external bus.
I have also tried using the kernel from hellfire, and it worked.
I want to run the installer to install a clean set on my internal disk. But
I guess I could have managed to move my first installation by using cpio. I
might consider this, and then play with the installer at a later time again.
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