You are trying to INSTALL right? (Some of the advice
is telling you how to boot the hard disk)
I have a Miata with similar hardware and I have
RedHat 7.1 running.
Clearly SRM can see your hardware else 'show dev'
would not list it. Clearly 'dka0' is your CD drive.
Lets do this one piece at a time...

First make sure there are no funny args hidden in SRM

>>>show boot*

make sure the variables 'bootdef-dev', 'boot_osflags'
are set to "" else SRM will use them
Now type

>>>boot dka0

You should get

aboot>

IF YOU DO then this was read off the CDROM, now type an "L"
for list

aboot>l
 This will list the options from aboot.conf, try each
option in turn...

aboot>0
aboot>1
aboot>2... etc

If you get (as you said before)
================================
aboot: loading compressed kernels/vmlinux.gz
 unzip: crc error
================================
Then the file 'kernels/vmlinux.gz' on the CDROM has a bad
checksum. Try reading this file on another machine and
do
'gunzip -l kernels/vmlinux.gz' to verify the file

good file can be got from:
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/alpha/kernels/

There are two other things to do before RedHat installer
will work properly. First zero the partition table
>>>set os_type NT
and reboot, use AlphaBIOS to delete existing partitions
then switch back to SRM 'CMOS SETUP'->F6 set Console to SRM,
reboot (now os_type should be Unix)
Second you need to make a BSD label on the disk else
after install SRM won't boot hard disk. See Installation notes
paragraph 4
ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/alpha/RELEASE-NOTES

I see you have more than one hard disk,
DEC calls them 'dkc200', 'dkc400'
RedHat calls them /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3
so your flags will be 'root=/dev/sda2' or 'root=/dev/sda3'

Stephen Lewis

> Subject:
> RH 7.1 installation on PWS 500a
> Date:
> Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:13:00 +0200
> From:
> "Ted Lufoma" <lufomatcoppernet.zm>
> Reply-To:
> axp-listredhat.com
> Organization:
> CopperNET Solutions Limited
> To:
> <axp-listredhat.com>, <redhat-install-listredhat.com>
>
>
>
> Hell all,
>
> below is the results of the sh dev;
> >>> show dev
> dka0.0.0.107.0 DKA0 Toshiba CDROM XM-62
> 1110
> dkc0.0.001004.0 DKC0
> RZ1CB-BS 0818
> dkc200.2.0.1004.0 DKC200 RZ2DC-PA
> 5520
> dkc400.4.0.1004.0 DKC400 RZ4DC-PA
> 5520
> dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
> mkc300.3.0.1004.0 MKC300 TL209
> 0173
> ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0
> 00-00-F8-76-25-56
> pkc0.7.0.1004.0 PKC0
> SCSI bUS ID 75.27
> pqa0.0.0.107.0 PQA0
> PCI EIDE
> pqb0.0.0.107.0 PQB0
> PCI EIDE
>
> >From the above what should be the full boot command to boot
> RH from the
> CD.
>
> Ted
> -------------------
> Ted Lufoma e-mail:
> lufomatcoppernet.zm
> CopperNET Solutions URL: www.coppernet.zm
> P. O. Box 22149 Tel : 260-2-245087 Fax:
> 260-2-245734
> Kitwe - ZAMBIA.
>
>
>

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