milo trouble in EB64P board

Shinta Sato (shinta@atropos.gen.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:12:05 +0900


Hi, Alpha-Users.
I'm new at linux-alpha and now trying to install linux in EB64P board
using ARC console and RedHat 2.1AXP.

I followed the direction in milo.howto and made milo FD.
But when I try to start Milo from FD, it stops after some messages
like this.

> Loading file at 0x80000000 ...
> Getting firmware parameters ...
> ... Memory size is 0x8000000 bytes
> Setting up arguments for Milo @ 0x801FFC00
> Setting up memory size for Milo @ 801FFE00
> Swapping to PALcode at 0x0

Linload.exe seems working OK. and it does read milo file which I
renamed from "milo.bios.arc." But milo prompt doesn't appear.

Can this be the trouble caused by my video-card?
My display-card is "Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2200(DRAM)" and I thought
this card is similar to "Diamond Video 64 DRAM" which was listed in
milo.howto.

I want to use Alpha from network, so I don't need any high-performance
graphic system or X window. What I need is just text-based console.
Is there any way to use linux-alpha, not depending on the types of the
video-card?

Or if it's not video-card trouble, what can it be?
Please give me some advice.

Thanks in advance.
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