Re: MILO configuration/installation

[Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>]

a.bottemanne@nl.ibm.com (a.bottemanne@nl.ibm.com) wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Pretty much new to Linux on Alpha (used to be usinf FreeBSD and NetBSD).
> After the 'normal' installation, how do I configure the MILO patr ?  I've
> created a
> small DOS partition (type 4) of 20MB in order to have enough space.
> I have set the AlphaBios to be the default, but I need some info to get the boot
> process to be automatic (in the bios, on partition 1 of sda)
> 
> Any suggestions ?

Put in your Rescue Disk and in Linux do a "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/sda1 bs=1440k" (without the quotes and assuming fd0 is your floppy drive and sda1 is the DOS partition). At least thats what worked for me! 


HTH,

Ron
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