* Newbie: AlphaCore
@ 2009-07-17 15:44 "J.A. Magallón"
2009-07-17 16:27 ` Will L Givens
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: "J.A. Magallón" @ 2009-07-17 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-alpha
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 <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is
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\ It's better when
it's free
Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for x86_64
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2009-07-17 15:44 Newbie: AlphaCore "J.A. Magallón"
@ 2009-07-17 16:27 ` Will L Givens
2009-07-18 1:02 ` test Will L Givens
2009-07-18 1:09 ` Newbie: AlphaCore Will L Givens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Will L Givens @ 2009-07-17 16:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-alpha
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of "J.A. Magallón"
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:45
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Newbie: AlphaCore
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 <jamagallon()ono!com> \ 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
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I was going to say, give NetBSD a shot but after checking, they don't
support 'milo' either. You could something like Gentoo but their milo is
built against some seriously old Dec palcode.
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2009-07-17 15:44 Newbie: AlphaCore "J.A. Magallón"
2009-07-17 16:27 ` Will L Givens
@ 2009-07-18 1:02 ` Will L Givens
2009-07-18 1:09 ` Newbie: AlphaCore Will L Givens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Will L Givens @ 2009-07-18 1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-alpha
test
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* RE: Newbie: AlphaCore
2009-07-17 15:44 Newbie: AlphaCore "J.A. Magallón"
2009-07-17 16:27 ` Will L Givens
2009-07-18 1:02 ` test Will L Givens
@ 2009-07-18 1:09 ` Will L Givens
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Will L Givens @ 2009-07-18 1:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-alpha
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- From what I understand, AlphaCore doesn’t support 'milo'. You're going to
have to try something like NetBSD or perhaps Gentoo. Keep in mind, just
about anything that uses milo will be based on outdated palcode from DEC.
Will L G
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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of "J.A. Magallón"
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:45
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Newbie: AlphaCore
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 <jamagallon()ono!com> \ 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
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