Appendix A. MILO
This chapter provides information that might be useful for those who want to install Red Hat Linux on an Alpha which boots using MILO, the Alpha Miniloader, instead of the SRM console.
 | MILO Is Not Supported by Red Hat, Inc. |
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Red Hat does not provide support for the MILO miniloader. If you use MILO to boot your Alpha, you will not receive technical support from Red Hat. |
You may need more information to help you with MILO. The Alpha Miniloader HOWTO, which contains in-depth information about the MILO miniloader, is available from the following URL: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/, in the file pub/Digital/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/docs/HOWTO/milo.howto.html.
 | Please Note |
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Many people will find the previous information to be very useful. However, this information is provided by sources outside of Red Hat, Inc. and it contains descriptions of procedures that are not supported by Red Hat, Inc. |
MILO Installation Overview
Installing Red Hat Linux on an Alpha system using MILO is slightly more complex than installing Red Hat Linux on an Intel machine. In general, the sequence of steps to a successful installation are:
Create a boot image diskette, a MILO image diskette and a RAM disk image diskette.
Load and run the Red Hat Linux/Alpha kernel, and boot into the Red Hat Linux installation program using MILO.
Install the bootloader on a small partition on your machine.