Subject: Re: Jakma,Paul and warp
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 05:06:30 AKST
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Kristinn E. Arnarsson wrote:
Wait a minute, why are you trying to load MILO from SRM? You can do this
but it seems the long way round. If you've got SRM already then you can
boot Linux with the aboot. I suggest you take a look through
http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/srm.html
The idea is that you use BSD disklabels to partition the disk (use the 'b'
option in fdisk) then place aboot onto the first cylinder of the disk
(directions are in the faq). This is much easier than loading MILO from
SRM.....at least in my mind.
--rdp
> Thx for your help so far guyz ;)
>
> Ok i got the new milo loder and did:
>
> dd if=MIATA of=/dev/fd0
> 896+1 records in
> 896+1 records out
> ok all good.
>
> The in the alpha workstation I did:
>
> boot dva0 -fi vmlinux.gz -fl "load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0"
> and got this:
> block 0 of dva0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block
> bootstrap failure.
>
> then i tryed:
> boot dva0.0.0.0
>
> and got the same errorr any id ? what i'm doing rong this time ?
>
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