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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:06:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: horrible hack / SRM console
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901081104260.2496-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <3696551B.84E549C9@ics.com>

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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:

> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have to
> > consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. Probably we'll have to do
> > something akin to MILO.
> 
> I looked at the ARC/MILO setup and someone will correct me if I'm wrong,
> but it seems the ARC console only groks NTFS. Setting up MILO basically
> consists of substituting the path to the MILO loader instead of the
> NTLDR.DLL (or whatever its name is).
> 
> Meaning you need a way to get an small NTFS partition onto disks. I'm
> guessing it's a toss-up between which is harder -- installing the SRM
> firmware or jumping through hoops to put an NTFS partition with MILO on
> the disk.
> 

No, it groks 'DOS'. But here's how this works- you have the normal dos
label which we've come to loathe, and you blow one partition (~5MB) to
hold the loader. This is a requirement even for NT/Alpha. This is not that
onerous. Just stupid. AlphaBIOS may do different- but I don't really know
the details.



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