RE: How do i make a boot floppy with MILO and linload.exe ???

[Marek Dohojda <Mark CARRERA COM>]

make sure that milo is for your motherboard!  It has to be specific or
it will not work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alex Ponnath [SMTP:alexp@nextcom.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 30, 1998 1:14 PM
> To:	'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject:	RE: How do i make a boot floppy with MILO and
> linload.exe ???
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry its me again. No i have done what you guys told me to, i copied
> the
> linload.exe
> and the milo file from the digital website on to a normal 3.5 dos
> floppy and
> setup my arc to boot from it. The bootsetup i did in accordence with
> the
> redhat book !
> 
> once i select boot linux, i get the folowing messages on my screen
> 
> opening file mult(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)\milo...
> Loading file at 0 x 80000000...
> Getting Firmware Parameters
> 
> Memory size is 0x100000 bytes
> Setting up arguments for Milo @ 0x801FFC00
> Setting up memory size for Milo @ 0x801FFE00
> Setting up memory size for Milo @ 0x801FFF00
> swaping to palcode at 0x0...
> 
> after that i get a blank screen and everything is gone ..... what do i
> do
> wrong or
> what causes this to happen and how do i fix it ??
> 
> thanks
> 
> alex
> 
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