From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 28 1:54: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9365F15540 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 01:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08463; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:56:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:56:39 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Chris Csanady Cc: Armin Ollig , Oliver.Kowalke@freudenberg.de, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux + FreeBSD on alpha (lx164) In-Reply-To: <37EFFE24.9D632BEC@ameslab.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Chris Csanady wrote: > 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. I'm pretty sure it boots IDE disks but I can't get my Miata to boot from an IDE cdrom though. -- 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