RE: Installing 7.1 on 164SX: MILO problems

[Heid Oliver <oliver heid siemens com>]

Hello Rajiv,

You should
1) use the latest milo from ftp://genie.ucd.ie/pub/alpha/milo/  (or the one
from RH6.1) instead of the RH7.1 milo and
2) build a kernel with CONFIG_ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS enabled. The kernel
shipped with RH7.1 does not boot from any milo because that flag was not set
during compilation.
These two points should fix it.

Regards
	Oliver


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rajiv Prasad [SMTP:rajiv.prasad@charter.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:41 AM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	Installing 7.1 on 164SX: MILO problems
> 
> Hi folks:
> 
> I am trying to install 7.1 on my 164SX, but am getting stuck booting into
> MILO.  I created the MILO disk using rawrite.exe as well as dd (under bash
> on UWIN running in AlphaNT on the 164SX), and I can boot into MILO fine
> using either floppy, but do not have any keyboard functionality at the
> MILO>
> prompt.  Can't type anything.  I checked the physical connections and the
> keyboard is fine. (Otherwise this mail would not be typed at all.)
> 
> The MILO image came straight from the Alpha RH 7.1 iso file, burned onto a
> CD.  MILO version is 2.2-17 (Mon Jul 3 12:27:42 CEST 2000) and it says it
> was built against Linux 2.2.16-SuSE using compiler gcc version 2.96
> 20000508
> (experimental).  As a check, I downloaded MILO version 2.2-17 from
> gatekeeper.dec.com, with similar results (only the build date on it was
> different from the 7.1 MILO).  Tried my old MILO disk from the RH 6.1
> distribution, and that loaded fine, and I could look at my filesystem
> using
> MILO commands.  However, the 6.1 MILO could not load the kernel on the 7.1
> CD -- I did not expect it to do that anyway.
> 
> So, what am I missing?  Are there any other MILOs for164SX that I could
> try
> that would allow me to install 7.1?  BTW, I have AlphaBIOS 5.70 running,
> and
> the system has NT4.0 on it already -- do not want to kill NT yet, so going
> to SRM is not an option.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Rajiv
> 
> 
> 
> 
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