After much head-scratching and teeth-gnashing (mostly involved with the bootstrap process) I managed to install 2.2r2 on an LX164 machine (533MHz 21164A, 256Meg, ncr53c875 controller for an all-scsi system, DECchip ethernet) which has an AlphaBIOS console. I then promptly upgraded it to woody.
The problem I am having now concerned custom kernels. The generic 2.2.18pre21 and 2.2.20 kernel images work fine. However, taking the 2.2.20 source and the config file associated with the generic image, changing only the subarchitecture (?) from generic to lx164, gives a kernel which just won't boot. No problems compiling, fortunately, but MILO just complains that the kernel can't be booted, period. (If anyone wan't the exact error message I can cause it to be generated again, but it really didn't have more information.) Is there any "magic" I need to know about to make an alpha kernel bootable via MILO? Thanks, Marty Gelfand Dept of Physics, Colorado State University
