Re: Alpha newbie install woes
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Liam Bedford wrote:
> well, IIRC, the 2.0 MILO doesn't support sparse superblocks (which Debian
> asks about). And I'm trying to remember if I could boot 2.4 kernels from
> it..
It can boot 2.4 kernels, but you need to compile the 2.4 kernel with the
Alpha Legacy Start Address option on, as MILO won't read it from the ELF
headers but has hit hard coded instead.
>From memory I couldn't get ANY of the 2.2 MILO's to work, but had a
reasonable success (I'm using it) with I think the 2.0.33 MILO.
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