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Re: Booting

Carl Parrish <cparrish@cox.net> writes:

> Okay after much trials and tribulations I was able to install Debian on
> my AlphaPC 164SX. However now I don't know how to boot into it. I'm
> using milo right now (as soon as the box is stable I'm going to install
> srm). When I did the install it asked if I wanted to create a boot disk.
> I said yes but then it said It couldn't create a boot disk for me.

Creating a boot floppy for AlphaBios is not supported currently. Also
you would need at least two floppies, since MILO and kernel don't fit
on one floppy.

> It think asked if I wanted it install milo. I said yes but again it
> said it couldn't do it. ( I assumed because milo was already
> installed).

Hmm, it would be nice if you could give the exact error message
here. Also be sure to use the very newest boot floppies, from 
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-alpha/3.0.22-2002-04-09/

In any case, I'd really recommend to install SRM instead of fiddling
with MILO, because as the partition formats are incompatible, you
can't easily switch later. And it boots a lot faster. And it has the
important "sound" command ;)

* SRM-On-SX164 HOWTO v1.1 *

First you need to check SRM supports your boot device. SX164 SRM
supports booting from IDE, Adaptec and Symbios, so this is usually not
a problem. Check
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/alphapc164sx.html

Then get

ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/v6.1/alphapc164sx/sx164_v5_8.exe

Copy it to a FAT formatted floppy as "fwupdate.exe". Unplug all serial
devices so SRM doesn't think they're serial consoles. Select "Update
AlphaBIOS" from the AlphaBIOS menu.  On reboot, you should get a blue
screen.  Hit enter a few times, and you should get a prompt
">>>". Then do:

>>> set os_type unix
>>> set console graphics

Please tell me if this works, I did this about a year ago and perhaps
I'm not remembering correctly.

        Falk


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