Re: Booting from MILO on AS200

[Jeff.Chimene@etest.com]

Hi List!

 

Thanks for your help! I was able to continue to research the problem. I'd especially like to thank [--], [..] and most of all [  ] for their insightful contributions.

 

You're right! RTFM certainly is the right answer in this case!

 

Cheers!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff.Chimene@etest.com [mailto:Jeff.Chimene@etest.com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:12
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Booting from MILO on AS200

Hi:

 

On an AS/200, at the MILO prompt, I should be following these instructions, from the "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 for Alpha":

To bootstrap the installation system, enter the following command at the MILO prompt:

     MILO> boot fd0:linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

If you are booting from something other than a floppy, substitute fd0 in the above example with the appropriate device name in Linux notation. The help command would give you a brief MILO command reference.

Where is "linux.gz?" when I use the path "sr0:boot/linux.", MILO complains that this is not a gzipped file.

I would prefer not to boot from floppies. Presumably I have a "bootable" CD-ROM image, although LSL disclaims any responsibility for the contents of the CD-ROM.

 

It looks like even though I boot MILO, and can access a CD-ROM drive, I still have to boot from floppies to continue the installation? Perhaps linux.gz is the machine-specific image created by the install process?

 

I not that the section "Obtaining and Installing Linux" at www.linuxdoc.org doesn't actually mention this file.