Re: Booting an Alpha 164SX
Guenter Geiger <guenter.geiger@psp-vie.be.philips.com> writes:
> ----------
> From: Falk Hueffner[SMTP:falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:37 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Booting an Alpha 164SX
>
> >Hi,
>
> >Ok, I just bought an Alpha 164SX/21164/533MHz/128MB RAM with an
> >Adaptec AHA-2940 UW. I tried to boot it, but couldn't get past the
> >BIOS.
>
> >The BIOS is an AlphaBIOS Version 5.62-1 970926.1141. It seems to be a
> >bit different from the one in the README. It asks me:
>
> >Boot Name: ______________
> >Boot File: ______________ ________________
> >OS Path: ______________ ________________
> >OS Options: _______________________________
>
> >The first part of Boot File and OS Path are selected from a menu. For
> >OS Path, I couldn't select the diskette. Also, I couldn't select
>
> Look at http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/html/nano-HOWTO.html/,
> you should set the Boot File to a:\ linload.exe.
>
> >partitons < 50 MB, because the clever BIOS knows I couldn't install NT
> >on them. Then I tried all kinds of combinations with putting the
> >rescue disc on a FAT partition etc. but always got "Bad image file
> >type".
>
> Just go to the harddisk setup in your BIOS and remove all of the partitions.
> You will partition your driver later on during installation.
So is the OS Path part totally irrelevant? And where do I type
"/milo", the input mask doesn't match that in the README.
Probably I should get a newer BIOS before trying again. Can anybody
tell me where and which?
Thanks for the pointers, though.
Falk
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