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HELP with MILO for XL 300 ?

HELP with MILO for XL 300 ?

Post by int_8 » Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:04:21



I have an alpha xl 300 on which I am trying to install linux.  I have
tried MILO built from the 2.2.18 kernel, 2.2.17 kernel, and the
2.0.XXc7 kernel.

The 2.2.X versions lock up after printing a message similar to
"Swapping PALcode at 0xB0000". Then the machine hangs.

The 2.0.x version does boot MILO.  The problem with that is at the
MILO prompt I type "boot fd0:" and get "boot: " then type "linux" I
get all kinds of ext2 CRC read errors.  Then it asks me to press any
key to reboot.

I have tried creating the floppy images from different drives and have
swapped the drive on the alpha machine.  None of which worked.

The box does not have a cdrom drive in it so I was trying to boot the
generic floppy, then the ramdisk floppy, then the network floppy.

I read somewhere that the reason the 2.2.X versions of MILO hang is
due to the video card.  It is a Matrox card.  I'm not sure about the
specific version.  I could find out if someone needed to know.

Thank you for taking the time to read this posting.  Any help would be
MUCH appreciated.

int

 
 
 
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HELP with MILO for XL 300 ?

Post by Harm Damsm » Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:54:19


Hi,


Quote:> I have an alpha xl 300 on which I am trying to install linux.  I have
> tried MILO built from the 2.2.18 kernel, 2.2.17 kernel, and the
> 2.0.XXc7 kernel.

> The 2.2.X versions lock up after printing a message similar to
> "Swapping PALcode at 0xB0000". Then the machine hangs.

> The 2.0.x version does boot MILO.  The problem with that is at the
> MILO prompt I type "boot fd0:" and get "boot: " then type "linux" I
> get all kinds of ext2 CRC read errors.  Then it asks me to press any
> key to reboot.

> I have tried creating the floppy images from different drives and have
> swapped the drive on the alpha machine.  None of which worked.

> The box does not have a cdrom drive in it so I was trying to boot the
> generic floppy, then the ramdisk floppy, then the network floppy.

> I read somewhere that the reason the 2.2.X versions of MILO hang is
> due to the video card.  It is a Matrox card.  I'm not sure about the
> specific version.  I could find out if someone needed to know.

> Thank you for taking the time to read this posting.  Any help would be
> MUCH appreciated.

> int

take the milo_xlt.bin from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhfragma/Loads/debian%20alpha
it works on my XLT-300 box.

have install floppies ready:

milo> boot fd0:exactnameofyourkernelfile root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

Debian where: exactnameofyourkernelfile = linux.gz on install-floppy
Redhat probably something as "vmlinuz..."

-H

 
 
 
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HELP with MILO for XL 300 ?

Post by int_80 » Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:58:24




> Hi,



>> I have an alpha xl 300 on which I am trying to install linux.  I have
>> tried MILO built from the 2.2.18 kernel, 2.2.17 kernel, and the
>> 2.0.XXc7 kernel.

>> The 2.2.X versions lock up after printing a message similar to
>> "Swapping PALcode at 0xB0000". Then the machine hangs.

>> The 2.0.x version does boot MILO.  The problem with that is at the
>> MILO prompt I type "boot fd0:" and get "boot: " then type "linux" I
>> get all kinds of ext2 CRC read errors.  Then it asks me to press any
>> key to reboot.

>> I have tried creating the floppy images from different drives and have
>> swapped the drive on the alpha machine.  None of which worked.

>> The box does not have a cdrom drive in it so I was trying to boot the
>> generic floppy, then the ramdisk floppy, then the network floppy.

>> I read somewhere that the reason the 2.2.X versions of MILO hang is
>> due to the video card.  It is a Matrox card.  I'm not sure about the
>> specific version.  I could find out if someone needed to know.

>> Thank you for taking the time to read this posting.  Any help would be
>> MUCH appreciated.

>> int

> take the milo_xlt.bin from
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhfragma/Loads/debian%20alpha
> it works on my XLT-300 box.

> have install floppies ready:

> milo> boot fd0:exactnameofyourkernelfile root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

> Debian where: exactnameofyourkernelfile = linux.gz on install-floppy
> Redhat probably something as "vmlinuz..."

> -H

Tried that and here is what I got:
booted MILO fine.  I typed "boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0
load_ramdisk=1"

Output:
a bunch of '#'s then
"floppy0: data CRC error: track 16, head 1, sector 8, size 2
end request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 601
block_read: read failed (after 0 bytes)
ext2_bread: read error"

This is pretty much the same thing I was getting with the 2.0.X version
of MILO.  I used the generic.img images from the RH 7.1 (Seawolf) and
Compaq's Redhat 7.2 version.

int

 
 
 
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HELP with MILO for XL 300 ?

Post by int_80 » Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:22:00


It was the floppy disk.  It never occured to me to try another floppy
because I had formatted it several times and ran checkdisk on it several
times too.  I changed to another floppy and I can get to the installation
process now.
I like that version of MILO a lot.  It is very verbose.
Thanks for all your help.



> Hi,



>> I have an alpha xl 300 on which I am trying to install linux.  I have
>> tried MILO built from the 2.2.18 kernel, 2.2.17 kernel, and the
>> 2.0.XXc7 kernel.

>> The 2.2.X versions lock up after printing a message similar to
>> "Swapping PALcode at 0xB0000". Then the machine hangs.

>> The 2.0.x version does boot MILO.  The problem with that is at the
>> MILO prompt I type "boot fd0:" and get "boot: " then type "linux" I
>> get all kinds of ext2 CRC read errors.  Then it asks me to press any
>> key to reboot.

>> I have tried creating the floppy images from different drives and have
>> swapped the drive on the alpha machine.  None of which worked.

>> The box does not have a cdrom drive in it so I was trying to boot the
>> generic floppy, then the ramdisk floppy, then the network floppy.

>> I read somewhere that the reason the 2.2.X versions of MILO hang is
>> due to the video card.  It is a Matrox card.  I'm not sure about the
>> specific version.  I could find out if someone needed to know.

>> Thank you for taking the time to read this posting.  Any help would be
>> MUCH appreciated.

>> int

> take the milo_xlt.bin from
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhfragma/Loads/debian%20alpha
> it works on my XLT-300 box.

> have install floppies ready:

> milo> boot fd0:exactnameofyourkernelfile root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1

> Debian where: exactnameofyourkernelfile = linux.gz on install-floppy
> Redhat probably something as "vmlinuz..."

> -H

 
 
 
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1. boot error with MILO on Alpha XL-300

I have an Alpha XL-300, with 3 non formated hard disk (sda, sdb & sdc)
and 1 CD-ROM (sr0).

I create a milo disk with a blank FAT floppy.  I copy on it linload.exe
and a copy of milo for XL-300.  I can start milo.  But when I try to
boot linux with my CD (RedHat 6.1 for Alpha), I receive an error.

My command:

boot -t iso9660 sr0:kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/sr0
After linux found cd-rom, it start to read generic.gz an it said:
        ##This is not a zip file.##################
It print a lot of ## on screen (more than 20 lines) and at the end:
        #Bad filehdr magic number 0x5f74 should be 0x183
        MILO: Failed to load the kernel

I try with /milo/images/xlt.gz file:
boot -t iso9660 sr0:milo/images/xlt.gz root=/dev/sr0
but it do same think.

If I try

boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0

with generic.img floppy into floppy drive, linux start to load,
decompressed vmlinux.gz and ask to insert a root floppy ?

What is the root floppy and where can I find it (on CD or on net) ?

What's wrong with my iso9660 cd boot ?

Thank at advance for your help

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