From: "Will L Givens" <wlgivens@gmail.com>
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Newbie: AlphaCore
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:27:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003e01ca06fb$7bc42310$734c6930$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C58C51B8-B3C7-4A01-972E-F7165C17965D@ono.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of "J.A. Magallón"
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:45
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Newbie: AlphaCore
Hi all...
I've put my hands on an old Ruffian box (164UX), and wanted to try Linux
on that alpha. I have used/managed/broken linux on x86(64) for years,
but with this alpha I'm not even able to boot the installer...
System: Samsung 164UX, 1Gb ram, 533 MHZ processor.
ARCS firmware updated to the latest (1.3.062) in
http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UX/.
I downloaded AlphaCore isos from http://buildsys.zero42.at/iso/.
It looks like it has kernel 2.6.26.
The box had an old Suse installed that I want to completely erase.
It has a fat partition for milo/ldmilo.
I cant get that milo to boot from the CD.
Questions:
- AFAIK, I can not boot from CDROM directly from ARCS. I need milo.
- Where can I get a recent milo for the ruffian ?
I say recent, because I have read that milo is kernel dependent,
and perhaps that old milo can't boot the kernel in the cd.
- How should I boot from the CD ?
I have tried things like
MILO> boot hda:
MILO> boot hda:/boot/bootlx
MILO> boot hda:/kernels/vlinux.gz initrd=/images/initrd.img
but no luck.
In short, what should I do to boot the installer ???
TIA
--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is
like sex:
\ It's better when
it's free
Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for x86_64
Linux 2.6.29.2-desktop-1mnb (gcc 4.3.2 (GCC) #1 Wed May
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I was going to say, give NetBSD a shot but after checking, they don't
support 'milo' either. You could something like Gentoo but their milo is
built against some seriously old Dec palcode.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 15:44 Newbie: AlphaCore "J.A. Magallón"
2009-07-17 16:27 ` Will L Givens [this message]
2009-07-18 1:02 ` test Will L Givens
2009-07-18 1:09 ` Newbie: AlphaCore Will L Givens
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