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164LX and 2.2.3



Thanks for all the advice I've received so far!

First about my 2940U2W question:

 My MILO is an LX164 MILO (2.0.30) from RH 5.0 and 
 is currently burnt into the flash rom on board.

 I would very much like to upgrade it at least to 
 a 2.0.35 based MILO, because those would recognize 
 Adaptec 2940U2W (which seems to be the only realistic 
 LVD-alternative to me so far; I need to connect 
 FAST-2 SCSI as well as LVD/SE drives without losing 
 the Ultra2 and I can't afford any of the dual channel 
 LVD cards by Symbios or Intraserver). 

 I also need to burn the new MILO into the flash rom, 
 because neither AlphaBIOS 5.66 nor SRM do recognize 
 the 2940U2W. I tried putting fmu.gz and 2.0.35 MILO on
 a same floppy and running fmu.gz, but apparently the
 fmu.gz contains a MILO binary, since the new flash
 gave me the old 2.0.30 MILO. The problem is that I 
 could't find 2.0.35+ version of the fmu.gz anywhere. 
 Can I create the fmu.gz somehow by myself from a 
 2.0.35 MILO?

Then about the kernel boot problem:

 My current MILO (the one in the flash rom) does 
 recognize my current SCSI-card and I haven't had
 any problems with it so far. The question still
 remains, why does the 2.2.3 kernel, booting from
 LX164 MILO, think it is running on an EB164, not 
 on a LX164 based AlphaPC?

 With the "Generic" kernel I meant that in config
 phase I set my Alpha type as "Generic", instead
 of LX164 or PC164. I have tried booting with an
 EB164 kernel, which didn't work (!?). I still
 need to try a PC164 option.  

 I've also been wondering whether the 2.0.30 MILO 
 could be too old for a 2.2.3 kernel?



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