From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Sep 27 16:30:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0057814A2D for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cc@137.org) Received: from ameslab.gov (friley-160-235.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.235]) by friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9466D119; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:30:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37EFFE24.9D632BEC@ameslab.gov> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:30:44 -0500 From: Chris Csanady X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, ja, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Armin Ollig Cc: Oliver.Kowalke@freudenberg.de, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux + FreeBSD on alpha (lx164) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Armin Ollig wrote: > > oliver, > > afaik SRM cannot boot from ide devices. > Either boot from floppy or get a cheap NCR53810. > I had to try several cards. The ASUS board with the 53810 chip does > **NOT** work. I finally found one board which does work. I think its > made by symbios. It has little dolphins on the board :-) > and works well. As early as v5.1, the SRM console will boot IDE devices. I ran NetBSD/alpha on an lx164 a long long time ago. :) Also, I have found that the Tekram cards based on the 53c875 work fine as well. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message