Re: Can't boot Linux with newer Alphabios

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

>     I just upgraded my AB to 5.66-1 that I grabed from
> dec.gatekeeper.com.  Not only did it change my splash screen it's also
> making milo hang on boot. I've tried the newest version of linload and
> images with no success. What happens is once milo starts up and gets to
> "calbrating delay loop.." it hangs and I'm forced to reboot.

Old AlphaBIOS versions do the same thing after you've changed any of
the BIOS settings -- you have to power the machine off and on to fix
it. Are you saying that you powered it off and got the same thing
again? Other people are successfully using 5.66-1.

>     I've been having another silly boot problem that happens while I use
> NT. If I just reboot out of NT to get back to my OS loader and go into
> Linux I get the same message as above. I have to power cycle the machine
> if I used NT to be able to boot Linux. It hangs in exactly the same way.

Bingo.

-- g