RE: Booting on an AlphaServer 1000

[Salvador Pinto Abreu <spa@sc.uevora.pt>]

> > I picked the Alcor milo from gatekeeper and it loads fine, but when I give 
> > it the boot command it immediately bombs with a message sort of like this:
> > MILO> boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> > Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 2096K size
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
> >   CIA machine check: reason for machine-check unknown (0xd001a0)
> >   vector=0x670 la_ptr=0xfffffc00000005a0 pc=0xfffffc0000477820
> > anyone have any hints?
> 
> What version of MILO did you pick up?  FYI, I've had great success with
> the 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 MILOs even with the 2.1 series kernels  For some
> reason, the newer MILOs seem to give alot of people trouble (by newer, I
> mean 2.1.x).

I used pre-2.0.31 and 2.0.30; I couldn't find an alcor version of 2.0.29...

btw, where can I find a correspondence between DEC system names and nicknames (ie, is Alcor the appropriate version for an AS 1000 5/300?)

Thanks
../salvador


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