Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:24:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901082321460.391-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 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. To boot from ARC, all we would need is a small FAT filesystem to hold the boot code. We can load bsd kernels from a 'real' filesystem after that. Stefan Esser is actually going to work on this (at least as far as the 'need to figure out the palcode problem' stage). -- 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
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