Re: enhancements to MILO
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:18:16PM +0100, Nikita Schmidt wrote:
> > * When setting up devices display an additional `.' each second.
> > Before milo
> > only would display a `.' when outputting something.
> >
> Nifty. Then it would probably make sense to scrap the old dot
> displaying mechanism, to make it even smoother.
Did that already.
> > * Added the possibility to specify a device (e.g. sda3) in
> > /etc/milo.conf, so
> > that the kernel doesn't need to be on the same device.
> >
> I thought I did it... Or was it in -0.2?
Oh $%&* ! Are you at -0.2 already ? Hope my patch integrates a bit with
that as well... Did you give it a try ?
> > The patches are against Nikita's milo-2.0.35-0.1.tar.gz.
>
> There is -0.2 out. It it supposed to be able to run without BIOS
> emulation. Works for me, don't know about others. Another feature
> is that it's now less verbose on the serial port (doesn't cause mess
> when there is a modem). Only output of a command entered via the
> serial port goes back to the serial line. The initialisation messages
> (which are so useful when something doesn't work) are thus suppressed on
> the serial line by default, but can be turned on with miloctl.
>
> BTW, binaries built from 2.0.35-0.2 are on genie in the milo-981005
Sounds nice. Sources as well ?
Oh, and BTW: the free x86 emulation doesn't work for me. Last time I
tried I didn't have a terminal at hand, so I don't know if it hung the
machine, but it certainly didn't do anything useful to my video card.
> directory. They are built without BIOS emulation, to see how it works.
> They can't be flashed.
That's a pity. I've always hoped to get rid of AlphaBIOS one day.
Unfortunately my system [XL366 - Alcor/XLT] doesn't build fmu. Do you
think that *if* I could get it to compile eventually it'd do something
useful on my motherboard. Or does flashing work another way on this
motherboard than the way supported by fmu ?
Arnaud
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