AlphaBIOS and milo
Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 10:48:10 -0700 (MST)
I am playing right now with pc164lx machine. It has AlphaBIOS 5.60-30
on it. This AlphaBIOS has this "nice" property that it does not
allow me to set a milo location to a floppy or to a small FAT partition
on a hard drive. It can be CD, or my Linux partition or even my
swap partition but places where I would like to put it are out of
bounds and I do not think that 'linload' would be too happy with
offered choices. :-) That leaves NT boot partition, which happens to
exits on this disk, as the only possible location. This kind of sucks
as in a case of hard disk troubles I am left without an alternate
means for an emergency boot. (Oh, I may put 'linload.exe' wherever
I want; only the second stage has these problems).
This AlphaBIOS also does not allows me to set a name of a program
to load on the second stage. Only a location is allowed. Luckily
'linload.exe' has some defaults so this location better be '\'
and you load something called 'milo' or nothing else. Sigh!
The question is: am I missing something above or this is the next
example of a "brilliant marketting" by showing down your throat?
ARC console, whatever its failings, was not that obnoxious.
Michal
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