From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 14 0:11:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FB214C81 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.0.178.21]) by lh2.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991114081135.EUAT11592.lh2.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:11:35 -0800 Message-ID: <382E6EE7.C4203C52@home.com> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:12:23 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaPC post-install BOOT - how? References: <199911140803.QAA12324@laurasia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Um. I wouldn't swear to anything. The manufacturer says it's on the PC 164 -- and looks close enough to drawings in the Digital/Compaq docs I could find online. craig Michael Kennett wrote: > > Hello Craig, > > > Well, installing onto the IDE drive ain't an option because although SRM > > sees it, FreeBSD doesn't. > > > > Ooohhhhh this is sad: 500MHz machine w/ 256MB RAM ... When I got it (a > > couple of days ago) I could boot ARC -> NT but the goal was FreeBSD... > > Is the box based on the AlphaPC 164SX Motherboard? If so, I've had better > luck running Linux. I'm currently using Debian 2.1, which can boot (via > MILO) from the ARC loader. Unfortunately, I have an Adaptec 2940 which > SRM doesn't recognize -- but the ARC loader does. I'd love to run FreeBSD > on the box, but it just isn't practical at this point in time. > > > > In my wildest dreams, I'd try to convert the bottom of FreeBSD to using the > ARC PAL-code. It is way out my depth, but I think it would enable more people > with Alphas to use FreeBSD. > > > > Regards, > > Mike Kennett > (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message