Re: Booting an Alpha 164SX
Anders Hammarquist <iko@cd.chalmers.se> writes:
> > We got it working now (Falk and me). We made a new set of bootdisks
> > and a new rescuedisk and that worked.
> >
> > Now milo barfs. The Alpha boots, I select linux at the boot
> > prompt. loadlin gets loaded and executet and the alpha resets (at
> > least the gfx board does), the graphics card and scsi board get
> > initialised and some status info about my system, which are correct as
> > far as I can tell. Then the following is displyed:
> >
> > MILO> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O>
> > O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O>
> > O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O>
> > O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O> O>
> > O> O> O> O>
> >
> > I can press return, in which case milo tells me that the command is
> > wrong and I should try "Help". After that the same prompt apears
> > again. If I press returns and directly afterwards some key, those keys
> > will be inbetween the "O>"'s. It seems that milo messes up the
> > keyboard input and thinks I have some key pressed all the time.
>
> It looks like you have something connected to the first serial port that
> echoes back any output. MILO talks both to the display and ttyS0 (so you can
> boot headless) and if there is something on ttyS0 (such as a modem) it can get
> very confusing.
You are right. We had a mouse attached to it. But we worked around it
by giving the parameters as BIOS OS command line. Then it
worked. Maybe this should be put in the README.
> > I'm currently donwloading the redhat milo, kernel and image and I will
> > try those. Hopefully their milo understands our Alpha. :)
>
> It would seem so, after it gets to the MILO prompt there isn't that
> much left that can go wrong.
Well, we couldn't get the floppy to work, so we put the root fs and
base on a partition. That worked.
Falk
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