RE: Multia Install problems

[Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>]

At 02:33 AM 26/02/03, Thomas Evans sent this up the stick:

> I was gonna say, I thought the Multia SRM wasn't capable
> of booting linux - I had to use ARC/MILO, which really
> isn't a big deal.

Multia SRM is perfectly capable of booting Linux ... as well as 
Free/Net/OpenBSD.

cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted S. Letofsky [mailto:tletofsky@rorke.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:03 AM
> To: Debian-Alpha
> Cc: Mark T. Valites
> Subject: RE: Multia Install problems
>
>
> Hello there.
> I am currently running a 166 Alpha Multia,
> and not using SRM.
>
> I'm using ARC and went through the aches and pains of that, instead.
>
> If I understand Multias correctly (I'm a total newbie to Linux AND
> Alphas)
> I'd say that the Multia won't boot directly from an EXT2 partition,
> period.
>
> You have to create a FAT partition (the Multia can read directly from
> FAT or from ISO9660 only),
> and you have to point the firmware to the partition, where Milo and the
> "noname" file live.

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