> MILO>boot fd0:
> ...
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT]
> MILO: unknown filesystem on device fd0
That MILO command never worked for me. I always got the same error
message, even though I was able to list the contents of the diskette
without a problem [therefore it can read the filesystem just fine...])
Try something like
boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0
To find out what the name of the kernel's file is, try
ls fd0:
You can then substitute that for linux.gz in my command above.
Hope that works, if not, try another diskette. Making the rescue disk
with dd is the right thing, so perhaps you just had a bad disk. MILO
seems to be VERY sensitive to a diskette that's even close to having a
bad sector... (i.e. it doesn't seem to try anything to correct the
error).
Good luck,
________________________________________________
Jean-Sébastien Guay jean_seb@videotron.ca
http://whitestar02.webhop.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Hellman" <mats.hellman@dnainternet.net>
To: <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:01 PM
Subject: Problems with Digital Alpha XL 266
> Hello,
>
> after reading tonns of documentation I decided to ask for some help
here. Im
> trying to install Debian on a Digital Alpha XL 266. Everywhere I read
about
> it, there seems to be no problems.
> Well MILO starts of fine, I get as far as to
>
> MILO>
>
> But here the problems begin, I made the rescue floppy since the system
doesn't
> want to boot of CD.
> When I type
>
> MILO>boot fd0:
>
> I get an error
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT]
> MILO: unknown filesystem on device fd0
>
> The disk is made with dd and I can read it in my other Linux installs.
> This is not the first time im playing with alternate platforms so I
don't
> consider myself a newbie to this but something is very wrong here.
>
> The XL 266 uses the ARC boot and everything there seems to be Ok since
MILO
> loads. If anyone has _any_ ideas where to start please inform me.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Mats Hellman
> Finland
>
>
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