The *absolute* only kernel I got to boot on our PWS 500au (through
milo or SRM) was generic-up-2.2.12.img that I found on the net. None
of the RedHat kernel worked. The generic-up-2.2.12.img couldn't find
the ethernet card, but then I got a .config to compile the standard
2.2.14 kernel - and that worked fine.
One thing I found extremely important: I couldn't use fdisk in any
way, even in the BSD style 'b' menu. It always destroyed my partition
table. I could only write disklabel under Digital Unix and then use
these 'resrvd8' partitions as there are during install. So the first
command I did as root was
# chmod 0000 `which fdisk`
I went for the SRM boot: I couldn't find a way to create a DOS
partition to copy milo onto my harddisk. But I could write aboot to my
harddisk.
Hope that helps
Clemens
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> The machine I've got is a Persoanl Workstation 500a and I've got the redhat
> 6.1-alpha cd in the cdrom (hd0). At the milo prompt I'm trying to boot with
> the following images (all that I've seen on the cd) w/ no luck.
>
> boot hda:/kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/sda1
> results: Hit any key to enter command mode, ESC to boot immediately.
> action: any key, just goes back to milo, and ESC just brings this choice
> back around after unzipping the image.
>
> boot hda:/images/generic.img root=/dev/sda1
> (after many lines of #####'s)
> results: Bad filehdr magic number 0x0 should be 0x183
>
> boot hda:/milo/images/miata.img root=/dev/sda1
> results: MILO: Failed to load the kernel
>
> boot hda:/milo/miata.gz root=/dev/sda1
> (after one line of ####'s)
> results: Bad filehdr magic number 0x41f should be 0x183
>
> boot hda:/images/ramdisk.img root=/dev/sda1
> (after one line of ####'s)
> results: Bad filehdr magic number 0x0 should be 0x183
> MILO: Failed to load the kernel
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
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