On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:06:58PM -0300, ivan wrote: > I'm trying to install woody on a alpha SX164, but i still got no sucess. I > can't boot from the cd with milo, when I load manually the kernel image > the system hangs. What's the last message appearing? Does the kernel boot or are that the messages of MILO initializing the devices before booting the kernel? IIRC MILO prints a "---------" before the real kernel messages appear. > I was hoping to be able to instal woody or sarge on this > machine without removing the AlphaBIOS and using SRM. Is this possible? > How? Well, the main problem when installing with AlphaBIOS is MILO. You'll have to search for different versions and try them... IIRC I installed my SX164 via MILO-floppy, maybe you could try that. Do you really want to use Windows NT 4 on your Alpha or why do you insist on AlphaBIOS? If not, change to SRM :) IMHO MILO is just too much of a hassle: as it can't read "sparse superblocks" introduced into ext2 in Kernel 2.2 (!) you'll have to format your /boot-partition properly. If there is no MILO supporting your SCSI-controller you've lost as well... Of course, the problem about SRM is that you'll have to switch the partitioning to BSD-disklabel but IMO that's worth it. Or do you fear that flashing the BIOS may be a problem? Well, not with your Alpha :) Even when you've mis-flashed your EPROM, you can put a file with a BIOS-image on a FAT-formatted floppy and boot with the "fail safe boot mode". You could for example put the SRM-image on a floppy and boot with this mode (drop me a note if you haven't got the SX164 manual) to check it out. Cheers Thimo
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