From ARC/Milo to SRM question

[Georg Wittig <Georg Wittig gmd de>]

Hello Alpha Linux world,

I have a PC164 (no LX or SX) running Redhat6.2 without problems. The
firmware currently uses ARC / Milo 6.2. I want to change that to SRM
booting.

My SCSI disk has a BSD disk label already. fdisk in BSD label mode
says:

|5 partitions:
|#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
|  a:     2048     2048      boot                        # (Cyl.    2 - 2)
|  b:   264192     4096      swap                        # (Cyl.    3 - 131)
|  c:  2742272   268288      ext2                        # (Cyl.  132 - 1470)
|  d:  2740224  3010560      ext2                        # (Cyl. 1471 - 2808)
|  e:  2742272  5750784      ext2                        # (Cyl. 2809 - 4147)

/dev/sda1 is currently unused.
/dev/sda2 is my swap partition.
/dev/sda3 is the root file system.
/dev/sda4 is /home
/dev/sda5 is currently free.

Now my questions:

1. Is it possible to install SRM without having to reinstall RH62?

2. I have compiled aboot-0.7 under RH62. If I understood correctly, I
need to install aboot prior to upgrading the firmware to SRM. But how?

	swriteboot /dev/sda bootlx
		Will this destroy my partition table?

or	swriteboot /dev/sda1 bootlx
		doesn't look as risky to me. But will SRM find aboot
		in /dev/sda1?

3. After upgrading the firmware to SRM, what will the boot command
look like? Someting like
	>>> boot dka0 -file boot/vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/sda3"
? Or did I misunderstand something?


Thanks for your help,


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