I have a second Alpha machine (533 Mhz 164lx) running Debian/Alpha/Woody and v2.4.12 of the kernel. It uses the Alphabios and milo to boot. That works fine if sda1 stores the kernel, ldlinload, and milo, sda2 for root, and sda3 for usr.
Now I want to rearrange some of the partitions (to convert all to reiserfs) and temporarily use sdb3 for root and sdb4 for usr while still maintaining sda1 as the boot space for milo, kernel, etc. I have modified the OS options of Alphabios with the parameters "root=/dev/sdb3 single", but milo seems to ignore this after the boot (note: I have /etc/fstab temporarily modified in the sdb3 copy to use sdb4 as usr, etc.). I can see the parameters getting passed during the boot, but the system boots exactly as before. It is as if the normal parameters were hard coded into milo somehow. Can anyone help me with this? One option I probably should do anyway is boot from a floppy (passing the same parameters) and see if this will work. A second option I might do is convert to SRM (similar to my first Alpha) which I like better anyway. Also, the remaining partitions are already converted to reiserfs. I also tried to boot v2.4.13 and it gave me problems for some reason. I noticed a v2.2-18 of milo that supports reiserfs on alphalinux.org. Do I need this to boot in this instance? The version of aboot I use on my SRM machine supports reiserfs also. Is this my problem? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
