Re: Getting Multia to boot by itself

[Kevin Brown <kevin_brown uswest net>]

Try here and see if it helps any:
http://www.alphalinux.org/docs/udb-multia.shtml

James Knowles wrote:
> 
> I've spent some time this week taking an old Multia, connecting and
> external SCSI drive to it, and getting RedHat 6.0 up on it. I'm really
> quite pleased with it overall. It's not a screamer, but does nicely
> nevertheless. It'll do as low-volume web server.
> 
> Currently, to get the machine up I let it boot to SRM, then I boot off
> of the floppy (dva0) that has a milo.dd image on it. From milo I boot
> off of a kernel on sda1 (later mounted as /boot).
> 
> I'm wondering, how can I get this machine to boot by itself (like my
> Intel-based Linux boxes do). After doing as much reading as I can, I'm
> quite confused. (I do that easily sometimes.)
> 
> Thanks for your patience. I'm new to Alphas, but having fun
> nevertheless.
> 
> James
> 
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