Re: Jensen and MILO

Kai Schuetz (kais@Yttrium.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE)
Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:48:04 +0100


Hi Gerhard, hi Henk,

On Dec 12, 11:38am, Gerhard Wesp wrote:

> > I believe (after reading quit alot of mail) that MILO does not
> > support jensen. Correct ?
Correct.

> I posted your mail to linux-alpha, hope you don't kill me for that.
Suppose not.

> As to MILO, it currently doesn't support the Jensen. But perhaps somebody
> is going to port it.

Porting it seems to be kind of difficult, because some PAL-Code has to be
rewritten, which seems to be a problem. It is quite easier to use
'aboot', which is a similar loader, but has been ported to JENSEN already.
It has got a lot of nice features like an interactive mode, or the ability
to load kernels from filesystems, even if they are zipped.

You can find it on
ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/aboot/
It also contains precompiled versions, I think, and documentation how to
start off with only an x86 linux system running.

> To linux-alpha: What docs would one need to be able to port MILO to the
> Jensen? How about availability through the net/from DEC?

The problem has been discussed recently (some weeks ago), perhaps
you can look at the archived mails in the mailing-archive
http://www.linux.ncm.com/
(better turn off autoloading of pictures and backgrounds if connected
through a slow line)

Hope you get it running,

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|\ai

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