Evaluation boards (and often designs cloned from them) include support for the Alpha Evaluation Board Debug Monitor. Consult your system document before considering this method of booting Milo. The following systems are known to include Debug Monitor support:
Before you consider this method, you should note that the early versions of the Evaluation Board Debug Monitor did not include video or keyboard drivers and so you must be prepared to connect another system via the serial port so that you can use the Debug Monitor. Its interface is very simple and typing help shows a whole heap of commands. The ones that are most interesting include the word boot or load in them.
The Evaluation Board Debug Monitor can load an image either via the network (netboot) or via a floppy (flboot). In either case, set the boot address to 0x200000 (bootadr 200000) before booting the image.
If the image is on floppy (and note that only DOS formatted floppies are supported), then you will need to type the following command:
AlphaPC64> flboot <Milo-image-name>