Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:27:02 -0500 (EST) From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> To: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902041124580.11923-100000@duhnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902041024140.18215-100000@junior.apk.net>
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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Stuart Krivis wrote: : I am also puzzled as to why *BSD wouldn't work with ARC. ARC is just : another way of calling the boot loader. MILO for Linux works with either : ARC or SRM. `Read Ross Harvey's message.' ARC is, essentially, a *very* stripped-down loader. SRM is much more full featured and provides information to the OS that it needs. MILO puts back some of the `missing' information in ARC (which is why it's machine-specific). -- -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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