miloctl(8)

NAME
miloctl - MILO control tool

SYNOPSIS
miloctl [-v|--verbose] MILO [cmd=CMD] [mem=MEM] [+|-FLAG]...
miloctl [-h|--help|--version]
The order of command-line arguments is not significant.

DESCRIPTION
Miloctl controls MILO's behaviour through the parameter block that resides inside the MILO image file. Three parameters can be set up: startup command, memory size, and flags. The startup command is executed after initialisation, as soon as MILO is about to display its command prompt. One second is given to abort the command in case something has gone wrong with it. The command can also be overridden from the ARC or AlphaBIOS console (through OsLoadOptions). The typical startup command may be something like boot sda2:, to make MILO read /etc/milo.conf from sda2. The memory size parameter lets you override MILO's impression of the system's memory size. It is not normally needed, because in most cases MILO correctly finds the size passed from ARC or SRM. Flags exist mostly for debugging purposes. There are two flags you can set (which are by default off). The first one, SERIAL_OUTPUT, tells MILO to peform output to the serial port during start-up. The second one, VERBOSE, increases MILO's verbosity (same as the VERBOSE variable; the flag is introduced because it may otherwise be impossible to set VERBOSE before the command prompt appears).

ARGUMENTS

MILO
    The MILO image file. It can be either a plain MILO image, or an SRM boot block (miloctl would then automatically locate the actual image). Note that the changes are only made to that file, not to the in-memory image.

cmd=CMD
    Set the startup command to CMD.

mem=MEM
    Set the memory size to MEM megabytes.

+FLAG, -FLAG
    Set or clear FLAG, which can be specified either by its full name (case insensitive), or, alternatively, by S or V capital (for SERIAL_OUTPUT and VERBOSE, respectively).

OPTIONS

-v, --verbose
    Describe the changes being made.

-h, --help
    Display the usage information.

--version
    Display the version of miloctl.

AUTHOR
Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>