Actually, it does, and the latest kernel sources include the support needed
for running via ARC or SRM consoles.
Note that the support is *ONLY* for MIKASA, or AlphaServer-1000, *NOT* the
AS-1000A (aka NORITAKE). These guys come in different flavors, and the only
one I've had to play with is a true AS-1000 4/266 with NCR-810 SCSI and the
EV45 CPU at 266 MHz. The other flavors have (possibly) QLogic-1020ISP and/or
EV5 (EV56?) CPU, more PCI slots and fewer EISA slots, or slower EV4 CPU,
etc, etc.
HOWEVER, what you don't have (yet) is the appropriate MILO patches, nor any
images for MILO or the kernel to jump-start you.
I'll put these out onto gatekeeper.dec.com in the pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/X11
directory:
mikasa-milo
mikasa-arc-2.0.5.gz
Put mikasa-milo onto a DOS floppy with linload.exe and boot it from the ARC
console, as you already tried.
Put mikasa-arc-2.0.5.gz onto an EXT2 floppy, and boot it via that MILO.
RAMdisk installation of a CDROM distribution should be straightforward from
there, left as an exercise for the reader... :-)
Note that there's no working XFree86 server available for the builtin CIRRUS
SVGA chip on the motherboard, although I did make available a monochrome
server that still has *quite* a few problems (in the same directory as the
MIKASA MILO and kernel).
Good luck, let me know how you make out.
--Jay++
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