RE: Boot Problems

[Brett Andrews <taukimus uci edu>]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but aren't you supposed to boot the kernel 
directly from SRM.  Milo is for booting from ARC, isn't it?  I am about to 
receive one of these machines, so it would be helpful to know.

Brett Andrews

On Friday, May 22, 1998 2:25 PM, Stan Senesy [SMTP:senesys@recomnet.net] 
wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I recently purchased an Alpha-Station 200 4/166 and am having problems
> getting it to boot for it's initial install.  I've created MILO, boot and
> ramdisk disks with rawrite and the XLT kernel in accordance with appendix
> D.4 of the Red Hat manual.  The system came with the SRM console loaded.
> When I try to boot the MILO disk with >>b dva0, it reports a bootstrap
> failure.  I've tried multiple versions of MILO from different locations, 
but
> same problem each time.  Any ideas?  I'm new to Alpha/Linux, so a step by
> step procedure sure couldn't hurt.  Thanks.
>
> Stan Senesy
> Senesys@recomnet.net
>
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