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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:41:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
Cc:        Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: alpha PC
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902040940470.27367-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902041124580.11923-100000@duhnet.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).
> 

And just to chime in with an opinion: MILO, once run, cannot be exited.
You have to power cycle the machine. Awful.



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