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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Chris Csanady <cc@137.org>, Armin Ollig <armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de>, Oliver.Kowalke@freudenberg.de, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux + FreeBSD on alpha (lx164)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909281035460.79836-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909280956050.322-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>

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> > > 
> > > oliver,
> > > 
> > > afaik SRM cannot boot from ide devices.
> > > Either boot from floppy or get a cheap NCR53810.
> > > I had to try several cards. The ASUS board with the 53810 chip does
> > > **NOT** work. I finally found one board which does work. I think its
> > > made by symbios. It has little dolphins on the board :-)
> > > and works well.
> > 
> > As early as v5.1, the SRM console will boot IDE devices.  I ran
> > NetBSD/alpha on an lx164 a long long time ago. :)  Also, I have found
> > that the Tekram cards based on the 53c875 work fine as well.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it boots IDE disks but I can't get my Miata to boot from
> an IDE cdrom though.

boots dqa0 for me on my pc164.. haven'd tried cdrom either




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