Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:07:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> Cc: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaPC post-install BOOT - how? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911140006180.79377-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199911140803.QAA12324@laurasia.com.au>
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Michael Kennett wrote: > Hello Craig, > > > Well, installing onto the IDE drive ain't an option because although SRM > > sees it, FreeBSD doesn't. > > > > Ooohhhhh this is sad: 500MHz machine w/ 256MB RAM ... When I got it (a > > couple of days ago) I could boot ARC -> NT but the goal was FreeBSD... > > Is the box based on the AlphaPC 164SX Motherboard? If so, I've had better > luck running Linux. I'm currently using Debian 2.1, which can boot (via > MILO) from the ARC loader. Unfortunately, I have an Adaptec 2940 which > SRM doesn't recognize -- but the ARC loader does. I'd love to run FreeBSD > on the box, but it just isn't practical at this point in time. > > <PIPE-DREAM> > > In my wildest dreams, I'd try to convert the bottom of FreeBSD to using the > ARC PAL-code. It is way out my depth, but I think it would enable more people > with Alphas to use FreeBSD. I think that some people have worked on this, and up until recently I would have said that this was unfortunately necessary. Now I see that ARC might probably go away. Yay. > </PIPE-DREAM> > > Regards, > > Mike Kennett > (mike@laurasia.com.au) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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