Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:44:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Joonas Tizihssane <zealot@master.telia.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Boot Disk(s) for the samsung UX 164 MB a.k.a Ruffian Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903112242550.27198-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <14055.56765.550918.319240@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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. Progress with this board is stalled since the firmware is not much like AlphaBIOS at all and information about the differences are so far hard to come by. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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