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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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