AlphaPC 164LX hang when using MILO

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Dear Helge,

The reason I hestitate to switch to SRM is that I
found too many failure stories from users attempted to
flash AlphaBIOS to SRM.

It will be helpful if you can send me some info about
how to flash it right.

Paul

--- Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:05:21PM -0700, junk email
> wrote:
> > Trying to setup a Linux workstation/server with
> the
> > following hardware:
> > AlphaPC 164LX
> > 21164 600MHz processor
> > 256MB RAM
> > AlphaBIOS 5.66
> > 
> > Boot from AlphaBIOS and always hangs at the
> following
> > area with using MILO lx164.img 7.1, 7.0 or 6.2
> from
> > redhat download.
> 
> I bought mine preinstalled with RedHat 5.2, and I
> don't think they
> switched milos. But unless you have a good reason to
> stay with
> AlphaBIOS I strongly recommend you to switch to SRM.
> Do you intend to
> dual-boot something? Any less-common hardware
> (graphic card, boot
> medium)? 
> 
> Greetings
> 
>           Helge
> 
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