Hi everybody,
I dont remember exactly, but I think somebody is wrong.
I compiled a part of slackware sources on our dec alphaserver 2100, and met
the booting problem.
On this machine milo not works in turn it has an srm and an arc console. (I
didnt tried, but there was
somewhere a table, where was listed a lot of alphas, and an asterisk in
milo column signing on which
machine it works.)
So I use aboot.
Cly
juhl@eisenstein.dk
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> To: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
> From: juhl@eisenstein.dk
> Subject: Re: [slackware-alphadevel]
download server on the way!
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 05:10:08 CET
> -----
> > > On the topic of installation.. aboot or
> MILO? That will be a fun one to
> > > figure out, since aboot is a little
more
> complicated to install, but is
> > > faster.
> >
> > Well, I've got aboot going on my machine.
> I haven't really played with
> > MILO yet. This will be something where
> I'll probably need some help
> > or explanations or something. I might
need
> to get Patrick's Alpha
> > (yes, he has one) and play with it.
> >
>
> As far as I understand it, "aboot" can only
> run from the SRM console whereas "MILO" can
> run from both ARC and SRM. So machines with
> both ARC and SRM have a choice. Machines
with
> only SRM also have a choise while machine
> with only ARC have to use "MILO".
>
> As I myself have always used the SRM
console
> and aboot I can't say anything about the
> advantages of one over the other (and I
could
> be wrong about the ARC/SRM list above), but
> it seems like we'll have to use MILO for
> those machines without an SRM console. And
to
> make the boot experience as similar as
> possible on all machines I suppose we ought
> to also use MILO on the rest of the boxes
> (although I sort of like aboot and have
> gotten quite used to it, but it never hurts
> to learn something new ;).
> Giving people the choice between aboot and
> MILO is ofcourse the optimal situation, but
> it'll require more work to create/maintain
> twice the number of boot disks.
>
>
> -- Jesper Juhl
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