Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:46:15 +0100 From: Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: MILO On Friday, 4 Sep, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > I know it is possible to create an SRM bootable milo, but I'm lost as to how > to do it? > any pointers? > MILO itself *is* SRM bootable, the only thing that is missing is the bootblock, which can be created in a variety of ways: - if your MILO resides on a FAT filesystem, use `srmbootfat' from genie.ucd.ie; - if you want MILO on an ext2 partition, use `ext2markboot' from aboot; - if you really like the old milo.dd, use arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip from your kernel build tree like this: objstrip -v -p milo mboot cat mboot milo > milo.dd (substitute your actual MILO image file name for `milo' here). I don't distribute milo.dd because of several things. Firstly, it may create false impression that MILO for SRM and MILO for ARC are different, while in fact the only difference is in the middleman, which is linload.exe for ARC and bootblock for SRM. Secondly, it's much neater to have MILO on a real filesystem rather than as a raw image at the beginning of a partition that renders the whole partition practically unusable. Thirdly, milo.dd is dangerous: if you write it into the first sectors of your harddrive so that SRM can boot it, you'll lose your partition table. > i have an AS 255/233 (avanti) currently working with milo 2.0.31, and kernel > 2.0.34. it works, mostly, with the occasional alignment traps, but a more > recent one would be nice. Is it one of my milos from genie? If so, you won't see much difference in the new set on an AS 255... Nikita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org