Re: XLT-PC164-Ruffian MILOs available for test
Jay,
Thank you for the new MILO. It successfully boots on my XL300.
However, there seems to be a problem spinning up the disks. After entering the command
to boot the floppy kernel image the system hangs. It hangs after displaying a message about
spinning up the first disk (sda). The disk does spin up, you can hear it. Reseting the system,
booting the MILO floppy, and again trying to boot the floppy kernel image hangs the system
spinning up the second disk (sdb). Third time I receive the error "Not enough memory", I have
32MB (and two disks).
Has anyone else reported problems spinning up the disks?
Do I need more than 32MB RAM, or is this a symptom of another problem?
-- Scott
The disks spin up
successfully, but the system hangs.
Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Get 'em while they're hot... ;-}
>
> Available for anonFTP at:
>
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/TESTING/
>
> you'll find floppy images of MILOs for:
>
> XLT (aka XL300/XL366, EV5 CPUs only)
> PC164 (not LX nor SX)
> Ruffian (aka UX)
>
> These MILOs are based on Stefan Reinauer's <stepan@suse.de> latest
> MILO code (2.2-18) and LINUX kernel (2.2.19) patches, found at:
>
> http://www.suse.de/~stepan
>
> They contain enhancements in the areas of:
>
> 1. they work on XLT and PC164 :-)
>
> 2. they can deal with the so-called sparse superblock EXT2 partitions
> (ie partitions larger than ~2GB in size, which require a blocksize
> larger than 1K)
>
> Patch sets for the changes are in the process of being mirrored to
> gatekeeper, and should appear within the next day or so.
>
> Please report any problems directly to me, Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com.
>
> Let the fun begin! :-)
>
> --Jay++
>
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