Upgrading on an Alpha XL 300

[Al Sparks <data345 yahoo com>]

I'm trying to upgrade an Alpha XL 300 (Digital Alpha 21164 processor)
from RH 6.2 to RH 7.2.  I've got LILO running on it.  I can bring LILO
up with no problem (can't find a LILO version, but it was built in
1997).  But when I try to boot off of the 7.2 CD with 

    LILO> b sr0:/kernels/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sr0

It tries to load the kernel but then hangs.

So I tried booting off of the kernel I already have installed:

    LILO> b sdb2:/boot/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sr0
and when that didn't work, I tried,
    LILO> b sdb2:/boot/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/cdrom

One of the things I tried doing was to check to see on the DEC site is
if there was a download of SRM for Alpha XL 300, and I didn't see
anything.

Am I out of luck in upgrading this?  Is the older Alpha processor just
not going to grok that kernel?  One other thing, I got the ISO image
that I burned onto the CD from http://www.linuxiso.org, but that
shouldn't make a difference, should it?
   === Al


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