alpha setup

miss (alpha) setup

We (Max Attems and I) finally set up miss the old alpha located at the economic university of vienna that hasn't been used for ages.

It isn't the top performer compared to current boxes but it's a nice toy:

cpu                     : Alpha
cpu model               : EV5
cpu variation           : 7
cpu revision            : 0
cpu serial number       :
system type             : Rawhide
system variation        : Dodge
system revision         : 0
system serial number    : AY65109067
cycle frequency [Hz]    : 299773226 est.
timer frequency [Hz]    : 1200.00
page size [bytes]       : 8192
phys. address bits      : 40
max. addr. space #      : 127
BogoMIPS                : 512.64
kernel unaligned acc    : 56 (pc=fffffffc00352504,va=fffffffc00356681)
user unaligned acc      : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string         : AlphaServer 4X00 5/300 2MB
cpus detected           : 2
cpus active             : 2
cpu active mask         : 0000000000000003

She currently has 7 disks, 2 more to come connected to scsi-host 1:
external case (2 free slots):

sda 18G
sdb 9G

internal hot-swap case (2 free slots but no disk-cases available):

sdc 4G
sdd 4G
sde 9G
sdf 4G
sdg 4G

kernel 2.6 was a show-stopper so we went with 2.2 and 2.4 with the later as running kernel:

Linux miss 2.4.27-2-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 15 00:13:03 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux

Sarge currently is installed on /dev/sdd and to get it to boot without manual intervention you have to configure aboot and srm:
Before the first uses partition we left some blocks for aboot so /dev/sdd2 is our / partition. To manually boot enter

boot dkb100

at the SRM console and

b 2/vmlinuz
initrd=/initrd.img ro root=/dev/sdd2

at the aboot prompt. For automation you have to set the following variables for SRM:

set boot_dev dak100
set boot_file 2/vmlinuz
set boot_osflags "root=/dev/sdd2 initrd=/initrd.img"

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