Re: Linux on a DEC alpha XL-300
On Sat 06 Apr 2002, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
>
> Bear with me, Paul :) I am just trying to understand this, and I am
No problem :-)
> still missing something... maybe! I did exactly the same thing last
> summer (about Aug, I think). I upgraded from a 2 Gig HD to a 9 Gig one.
> It was absolutely clean... no previous file systems installed. I
> created a small FAT partition first and installed the linload and old
> milo I had been using on it and set it up to boot to the milo prompt in
> ALPHABIOS from this. I then got the current "testing" boot floppies and
> proceeded to do an install from scratch from the net. This was my first
> try at doing this and it all went very smooth. This was just a HD swap,
> so I left my OS settings in Alphabios the same and when it came to the
> "reboot" step it booted right into the new install! The new HD was
> partitioned and formatted entirely (except for the FAT partion) with the
> "testing" boot-floppies. I guess my "problem" is that I don't recall
> any question during the install about backward compatibility. I must
> have been on "automatic" at the time and just lucked out, or the
> "default gods" protected me :)
The default is/was indeed "2.0 compatibility" AFAIK.
> Did you just drop the kernel in the FAT partition and go with it, or did
> you have to change your milo boot string to point to it to get it to
> boot from there? I suspect the latter & if so could you share your
> settings with me? I am eventually wanting to get a 2.4 kernel running
> here with ext3, and I wonder if this method "might" be useful in doing
> that... just rambling...
You have to tell milo where to find the kernel. That implies changing
the device name from sda1 to sda2 (or wherever your FAT partition is).
You also have to tell it the type (fat) of file system, I believe.
No, I'm not going to reboot my alpha to check this out :-) (I'd also
have to drag a monitor to where it is, as it's basically running
headless; when I do have to reboot, I cross my fingers :-).
Paul Slootman
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