If you dedicated the first partition of your first hard drive to a small FAT partition for booting, 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 for ARC and in the section called Setting up AlphaBIOS for Installation 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.