XL-266 install

[U. George]

Some arc consoles, as i remem from long ago, allowed you to select 
either the ARC, or SRM console.  It was an option in the menu. BUT not 
all machines had this ability.
/gat  

Tom Linden wrote:

>You need milo and linload.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: axp-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-admin at redhat.com]On
>  Behalf Of trevor
>  Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:53 AM
>  To: axp-list at redhat.com
>  Subject: XL-266 install
>
>
>  While rumaging through the old hardware pile at work, to my
>  pleasant surprise
>  I came across an Alpha XL-266 and would like to get Linux running on it.
>
>  I booted up the machine. Someone had, at one point, installed
>  both Windows
>  2000 and Windows NT4 but I am not able to boot either of these;
>  in both cases
>  they start to boot but then fail complaining about missing DLLs and so on.
>
>  I found the alphalinux.org site and tried to figure out how to
>  get Linux on
>  this machine but I wasn't successful so I'm hoping to catch some
>  kind person
>  here who might help.
>
>  After a few false starts it is my understanding that the only
>  firmware I can
>  use on this machine is the Windows NT ARC firmware, in other words, the
>  option of using SRM doesn't exist for me. [One point of confusion
>  for me so
>  far: the documents say there are only 2 types of firmware, SRM
>  and AlphaBIOS,
>  so what is Windows NT ARC firmware and how does that fit in?]
>
>  I went to the "Alpha Systems Firmware" site
>  [http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware] and upgraded to
>  the latest
>  firmware for this machine model 4/xxx (which I believe is version 4.7x or
>  something like that). That firmware download site mentioned
>  something about
>  AlphaXL Model 4/xxx and Model 5/xxx which is again confusing
>  because I don't
>  see anything anywhere on this machine to suggest model 4/xxx or
>  model 5/xxx.
>
>  Based on what I've found out so far I'll need to use MILO to
>  boot, so I tried
>  to follow the MILO Miniloader HOWTO. I can't seem to find
>  anywhere where I
>  can find the required "linload.exe" file. Every link I find leads
>  to sites
>  that don't exist anymore. I'm not out of luck, am I?
>
>  I was able to find an XL-specific Milo image at
>  [ftp://genie.ucd.ie/pub/alpha/milo], but all the other links from
>  the "Alpha
>  Miniloader HOWTO" are dead.
>
>  My current understanding is that I need to format a floppy (FAT)
>  and copy both
>  the XL-specific MILO and linload.exe onto it. But what after that I'm not
>  sure. I've followed the instructions in the HOWTO to setup a
>  Linux bootloader
>  option in the firmware (so the menu item is ready to go) but as
>  for getting
>  the components for the floppy, what to do with them (is just
>  copying them to
>  the floppy sufficient?) and what else I need to do are still fuzzy.
>
>  Does MILO get installed to the system anywhere, or do I always
>  need the floppy
>  to boot?
>
>  I'm hoping someone can clarify these things for me.
>
>  Thank you for any and all help, and best regards,
>  	Trevor
>
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