From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?UTF-8?Q?=22J.A._Magall=C3=B3n=22?=" Subject: Newbie: AlphaCore Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:44:45 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed"; delsp="yes" To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Hi all... I've put my hands on an old Ruffian box (164UX), and wanted to try Linux on that alpha. I have used/managed/broken linux on x86(64) for years, but with this alpha I'm not even able to boot the installer... System: Samsung 164UX, 1Gb ram, 533 MHZ processor. ARCS firmware updated to the latest (1.3.062) in http://www.alphalinux.org/firmware/api/UX/. I downloaded AlphaCore isos from http://buildsys.zero42.at/iso/. It looks like it has kernel 2.6.26. The box had an old Suse installed that I want to completely erase. It has a fat partition for milo/ldmilo. I cant get that milo to boot from the CD. Questions: - AFAIK, I can not boot from CDROM directly from ARCS. I need milo. - Where can I get a recent milo for the ruffian ? I say recent, because I have read that milo is kernel dependent, and perhaps that old milo can't boot the kernel in the cd. - How should I boot from the CD ? I have tried things like MILO> boot hda: MILO> boot hda:/boot/bootlx MILO> boot hda:/kernels/vlinux.gz initrd=/images/initrd.img but no luck. In short, what should I do to boot the installer ??? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for x86_64 Linux 2.6.29.2-desktop-1mnb (gcc 4.3.2 (GCC) #1 Wed May