-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From what I understand, AlphaCore doesn?t support 'milo'. You're going to have to try something like NetBSD or perhaps Gentoo. Keep in mind, just about anything that uses milo will be based on outdated palcode from DEC. Will L G -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.9.0 (Build 397) Charset: utf-8 wj8DBQFKYSC8i2oEKFOCzgIRAmbzAJ9FNA6Wbue8dYg64ZGYeD4f2v+7lwCg+26W uBOrfISkgxjoqR4fEcL4aKw= =wuzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----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 -- 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 -- 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
