Alpha Miniloader Howto

David A. Rusling, david.rusling@reo.mts.dec.com

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright
• 1.2 New Versions of this Document

2. What is MILO?

3. Pre-Built Standard MILO Images.

4. How To Build MILO

5. How To Load MILO

• 5.1 Loading MILO from the Windows NT ARC firmware
• 5.2 Loading MILO from the Evaluation Board Debug Monitor
• 5.3 Loading MILO from a Failsafe Boot Block Floppy
• 5.4 Loading MILO from Flash
• 5.5 Loading MILO from the SRM Console
• 5.6 System Specific Information

6. MILO's User Interface

• 6.1 The ''help'' Command
• 6.2 Booting Linux
• 6.3 Rebooting Linux
• 6.4 The ''bootopt'' command

7. Running the Flash Management Utility

• 7.1 The ''help'' command
• 7.2 The ''list'' command
• 7.3 The ''program'' command
• 7.4 The ''environment'' command
• 7.5 The ''bootopt'' command
• 7.6 The ''quit'' command

8. Restrictions.

9. Problem Solving.

10. Acknowledgements.