Re: Ruffian without floppy drive (fwd)

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:16:16AM +0800, Ling-En Kao wrote:
> 
> Also, I tried to put ldmilo.exe and ruffian MILO image (from debian-3.0
> and renamed to "milo") on a FAT-formatted partition.
> After that, I run the ldmilo.exe from ARCSBIOS( version 1.3.058, the
> machine hung after spitting out the following message:
> 
>  Load MILO Utility 1.1 (Copyright DeskStation Technology, Inc. 1997,1998)
>  [JAY'S HACKED VERSION]
> 
>  Searching for MILO files in current partition...
>  Loading MILO file: scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\milo
>  MILO File with 565400 bytes loaded at 80500000
> 
> Is this procedure correct?

The procedure is correct but not all milos are created equal.
Recently I had to deal with one UX and 2.2-18 from
http://www.suse.de/~stepan/binaries/
was not booting that machine at all.  2.2-17 from the same location
did work but it was refusing to load anything from a floppy (which
is not your concern :-) although CD and hard disk handling were fine.
Some other one which I tried had some other quirks. 'milo' name
is hardwired into its loader so having few of these at the same time
to try that or another unfortunately is not feasible.

   Michal