From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 11 7:22:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D5E15106 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA10833; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:22:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA60202; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:22:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:22:21 -0500 (EST) To: Joonas Tizihssane Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Boot Disk(s) for the samsung UX 164 MB a.k.a Ruffian In-Reply-To: <36E7DCE5.55740C20@master.telia.net> References: <36E7DCE5.55740C20@master.telia.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14055.56765.550918.319240@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joonas Tizihssane writes: > I'm wondering how it is going with the creation of the boot disk(s) for > this Motherboard, i wish though that i could help you guys but i know > nada about programming.. > > yours Joonas... > Unfortunately, this motherboard doesn't support the SRM console, only AlphaBios. FreeBSD/alpha will only run on machines which have the SRM console. So, you can't run FreeBSD/alpha on a UX motherboard. There are people working on getting FreeBSD/alpha running on machines with the AlphaBios, but I have no idea how much progress they've made. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message