You can load and run AlphaBIOS without flashing by placing the AlphaBIOS ROM image file on a floppy and entering 'nt' at the >>> prompt.
Alan On 14 Jan 2004 11:53:41 -0500 Thomas Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I am booting from MILO (spare me the SRM lecture :-) > I still use NT on the machine and would rather > not have to reflash each time I boot into NT or Linux). > > ...tom > > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:41, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:49:13PM -0500, Thomas Evans wrote: > > > > > > I have a panic with the released 2.6.1 on my 164LX > > > and Adaptec controller. I happens when my root > > > partition is being mounted (EXT3). An unaligned > > > access occurs followed by a message stating that init > > > was killed. > > > > That sounds very similar to the problem I had on my 164LX when I booted > > 2.6.1 from MILO. Are you using MILO as well? > > > > This whole exercise (switching to SRM) was to try to work around that > > very bug. I'll let you know if it winds up being successful :-)

