Alpha: Post-Installation MILO Setup

If you dedicated the first partition of your first hard drive to a small FAT partition for booting (as the installation procedure advises you to) you can the modify the Boot Menu to have a selection to load MILO from this partition.

Add another boot selection, as described in the section called Setting up ARC for Installation in Chapter 3 for ARC and in the section called Setting up AlphaBIOS for Installation in Chapter 3 for AlphaBIOS. However, this time you should select the appropriate hard drive device. If you installed Linux to the first hard drive, the device should be:

scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

If you are using an ARC console or the AlphaBIOS console, select the following device:

Disk 0 Partition 1

If you wish to autoboot into Linux, set the OSLOADOPTIONS variable. In the ARC and AlphaBIOS consoles, the contents of the OSLOADOPTIONS parameter are passed to MILO as a command. In order to boot Linux automatically in MILO, enter a value for OSLOADOPTIONS similar to this one:

boot sda2:/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda2

Once you have done this, booting and running Linux on an Alpha system should be very similar to doing so on an x86 system.