[ale] RHAT 7.1 installation question

[CBenesh at WesleyanCollege.edu]

Hi,
 
 
          My system's been broken into, so I'm attempting to re-install RHAT
7.1 instead of the earlier version I'd been using. Since I've got an AlphaPC
164LX,  I'm attempting to follow the instructions 
for Alpha  installations from the RedHat website, but am making very little
progress. Here's what happens:
 
1) I follow the instructions for setting up AlphaBios(apparently not the
preferred BIOS, but its what I've got.) for Installation. I upgraded
AlphaBios to 5.66-1. I made a MILO image from the CD. I made a
generic installation kernel disk and a RAM disk from the CD.
 
2) I got into the BIOS and changed the MBR(?) so that I could boot of the
MILO image that I had made,
all according to instructions.
 
3) I reset the machine, and tell it to start MILO from the disk image. At
this point there are, according to
the instructions, two choices
 
A) Attempt to boot from the CD via 
 
boot sr0:/kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/sr0  (Since there is no generic.gz in
this directory on the CD I've
tried replacing kernels by images(where there is a generic.gz), generic by
vmlinux.gz(which is in the
kernels directory), and putting "" around the root= statement, like it says
in the SRM version of the instructions).  Invariably, the machine spits out
a bunch of device info, no errors that I can see, and then
says
 
              Kernel Panic. I have no root. I want to scream.
 
The Kernel isn't alone......
 
B)  Try to boot from all of the floppies images I've made via
 
boot fd0:
 
I get prompted to swap the root and ram disks in and out.(I assume
generic.gz is on the root disk,
but the instructions aren't very clear. I've tried a few other permutations
as well.) While I do seem to
get further than in A),  at the end of the day there is another kernel
panic, this one claiming that 
there is no init and that I should pass this to the kernel via the init=
option. 
 
This has gotten a little long winded, but is there anything else I should
try?
 
 
Thanks
 
 
 
 
 

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