Contents

1 Information specific to Red Hat Linux/Alpha
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Supported Hardware
	1.3 Installation Overview
	1.4 Choosing Diskette Images
	1.5 Installing
		1.5.1 Booting the MILO Diskette
		1.5.2 Booting the Kernel Diskette
			1.5.2.1 Booting the Kernel Diskette Using MILO
			1.5.2.2 Booting the Kernel Diskette Using SRM
		1.5.3 Starting the Installation
		1.5.4 Issues Specific to Red Hat Linux/Alpha
			1.5.4.1 Disk Partitioning
			1.5.4.2 Creating a MILO Partition
			1.5.4.3 XFree86 and TGA
		1.5.5 Finishing Up
			1.5.5.1 Configuring MILO
2 Alpha Miniloader HOWTO
	2.1 Introduction
		2.1.1 Copyright
		2.1.2 New Versions of this Document
	2.2 What is MILO?
	2.3 Pre-Built Standard MILO Images.
	2.4 How To Build MILO
	2.5 How To Load MILO
		2.5.1 Loading MILO from the Windows NT ARC firmware
		2.5.2 Loading MILO from the Windows NT AlphaBIOS
		2.5.3 Loading MILO from the Evaluation Board Debug Monitor
		2.5.4 Loading MILO from a Failsafe Boot Block Floppy
		2.5.5 Loading MILO from Flash
		2.5.6 Loading MILO from the SRM Console
		2.5.7 System Specific Information
			2.5.7.1 AxpPCI33 (Noname)
			2.5.7.2 AlphaPC64 (Cabriolet)
			2.5.7.3 EB66+
			2.5.7.4 EB64+/Aspen Alpine
			2.5.7.5 Universal Desktop Box (Multia)
			2.5.7.6 EB164
			2.5.7.7 PC164
			2.5.7.8 XL266
			2.5.7.9 Platform2000
	2.6 MILO's User Interface
		2.6.1 The ''help'' Command
		2.6.2 Booting Linux
		2.6.3 Rebooting Linux
		2.6.4 The ''bootopt'' command
	2.7 Running the Flash Management Utility
		2.7.1 The ''help'' command
		2.7.2 The ''list'' command
		2.7.3 The ''program'' command
		2.7.4 The ''environment'' command
		2.7.5 The ''bootopt'' command
		2.7.6 The ''quit'' command
	2.8 Restrictions.
	2.9 Problem Solving.
	2.10 Acknowledgements.
3 SRM Firmware HOWTO
	3.1 How Does SRM Boot an OS?
		3.1.1 Loading The Secondary Bootstrap Loader
	3.2 The Raw Loader
	3.3 The aboot Loader
		3.3.1 Getting and Building aboot
		3.3.2 Floppy Installation
		3.3.3 Harddisk Installation
		3.3.4 CD-ROM Installation
		3.3.5 Building the Linux Kernel
		3.3.6 Booting Linux
			3.3.6.1 Boot Filename
			3.3.6.2 Boot Flags
		3.3.7 Booting Over the Network
	3.4 Sharing a Disk With DEC Unix
		3.4.1 Partitioning the disk
		3.4.2 Installing aboot
4 Alpha HOWTO
	4.1 What is Alpha
	4.2 What is Digital Semiconductor
	4.3 Alpha CPUs
	4.4 21064 performance vs 21066 performance
	4.5 A Few Notes On Clocking
	4.6 The chip-sets
	4.7 The Systems
	4.8 Bytes and all that stuff
	4.9 PALcode and all that stuff
	4.10 Porting
	4.11 More Information
	4.12 References