-----Original Message----- From: linux-alpha-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-alpha-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of "J.A. Magallón" Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:45 To: linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.9.0 (Build 397) Charset: utf-8 wj8DBQFKYKZli2oEKFOCzgIRApOJAKCpWovCQxzJMph2OTjjQIDJ+GRd1ACfRES3 ry/7rVM2XiGBhWDUb2Yt3aU= =u+i3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
