For most systems, the best method of booting Red Hat Linux/Alpha is using the MILO, the Linux/Alpha miniloader. You may either load MILO directly from your system's firmware, or use the ARC console to load MILO as an alternate ``operating system''. Details on these procedures are in the MILO HOWTO, which is available as Appendix D.
The full MILO tree is available on the Red Hat CD in the milo/
directory. It contains the latest documentation and MILO images
available when this CD was manufactured (later versions of MILO are
regularly made available at gatekeeper.dec.com). The
milo/images/ directory also contains floppy disk images that can
be used with the ARC console to boot directly into MILO.
They contain MILO and linload.exe.
To make a MILO floppy, you'll need to use either the dd command
on a Linux (or Digital Unix) system, or the rawrite.exe program
(on the Red Hat CD) on a Microsoft Windows NT or MS-DOS system. To use
dd, first mount the CD (e.g., under /mnt/cdrom/), choose the
appropriate image for your system from milo/images/, and:
To use rawrite, choose the appropriate image for your system, and
(assuming your CD-ROM is drive d:):
rawrite first asks you for the name of a diskette image; enter
the name of the MILO image for your system (e.g.,
noname-udb.img). Then it asks for a diskette drive to write the
image to; enter a:.
Label the floppy ``MILO floppy''.
If MILO is not supported on your machine, you need to boot the floppy
or the Red Hat CD directly from the SRM console. Information on doing
this is available from the Red Hat Software web site at Please Note: If you are having trouble with MILO, the first thing to try
is a newer MILO.
3.4.1 Making a MILO Floppy
cd /mnt/cdrom
dd if=milo/images/your-image.img of=/dev/fd0
d:
cd milo/images
\dosutils\rawrite.exe
3.4.2 What if MILO doesn't work?
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/alpha/faq.