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
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