The easiest method of booting Red Hat Linux/Alpha is through the Linux Miniloader, MILO. You may either load MILO directly from your system's firmware, or use the ARC console to load MILO as an alternate OS. Details on these procedures are in the MILO FAQ, which is available as Appendix E.
The full MILO tree is available on the CD in the milo directory.
It contains the latest documentation and MILO images available when
this CD was manufactured. However, later versions of MILO are regularly
made available at gatekeeper.dec.com. The images/arc
directory also contains floppy disk images that can be used with the
ARC console to boot directly into MILO. They contain MILO
and linload.exe, as well as a flashable version of MILO and the
flash management utility for the platforms which support flashing MILO.
If you have trouble with MILO, the first thing to try is a newer MILO.
If MILO is not supported on your machine, you need to boot the floppy
or the CD directly from the SRM console. Information on doing this is
available from the Red Hat Software web site at
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/alpha/faq.