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Re: Getting potato to work



On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Pettersson wrote:

> I've got a major problem which I don't seem to find the solution to. I've
> been running 2.1 for quite som time now (perfect stability, never went
> down) and now it's time to move on, but I can't. I have a "noname" with an
> old milo in flash, and it refuses to load any kernel newer than 2.0.36.
> 
> The newer 2.0 and 2.2 series of milo doesn't work from flash, and the old
> milo cannot start ldmilo.exe, linload.exe, a newer milo nor the firmware
> update utility (with SRM and ARC in it).
> 
> Can the firmware utility be put on a fail-safe disk, and if so, how? Any
> hints would be very appreciated :)

Ugh...precisely why I never flashed MILO on my nonames :-(  I'll look into
it as I seem to recall some way of restoring the original firmware, but
can't remember how or if it ended up being possible or not.

My first thought would be to have a look at the MILO-HOWTO in the System
Specific section
(http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/milo-5.html#ss5.6).  Perhaps you boot SRM
or ARC from a boot block floppy and restore the system to SRM/ARC after
getting one of the consoles to boot.

C



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