Nils Faerber (Nils.Faerber@unix-ag.org)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:29:56 +0100 (NFT)
Hello!
> Hi, I've read that you can flash MILO to your multia so that it pops up
> every time you boot (w/o a floppy). The docs I read suggested this may be
> bad because it limited future hardware upgrades. My multia has probably
> seen it's last hardware upgrade (short adding some ram). Do any of you
> have experience with this. If so is there a better (for novices) howto on
> this than the MILO Howto?
I have done this with a Noname (AXPpci33) and it works pretty well. Flashing
MILO speeds-up cold start of the machine because ARC does not have to
started before MILO gets loaded. And if you just want to run Linux on your
Multia you are fine with this solution.
The only "problem" I see is that the flashable MILO versions ("fmu.gz" if I
am correct) have not been updated for a while. So if you have to use a very
recent MILO for some reason you should stick with MILO on harddisk, else you
may do the flash procedure.
> As always any advice is appreciated!
The only advice I can give you is to find the 'fmu.gz' file and read the
MILO HowTo carefully. The HowTo sais it all.
> James Hamilton
CU
nils
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