Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:14:37 -0400 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'John Polstra' <jdp@polstra.com>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dual boot FreeBSD + OSF1? Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C3004@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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Upgrading the firmware is always a good idea.
Can't hurt it.
Unless you are working with very strange ports of Oracle of course :-)
Dual booting an alpha is simple impossible to screw it up. Put Tru64 UNIX on
one disk (dka0) and the other operting system on a second disk (dka100).
I don't know what you are currently using for "boot_osflags" but Tru64
doesn't want any.
Enjoy.
----Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: John Polstra [mailto:jdp@polstra.com]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:11 PM
To: alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dual boot FreeBSD + OSF1?
You might remember I asked before about setting up a dual-boot alpha
for FreeBSD and OSF1 (aka Tru64). I've installed the 2nd disk and
I've received the software, so I'm ready to proceed. But I have a
couple of questions to make sure I don't shoot myself in the foot.
The system is running FreeBSD just dandy and I don't want to mess that
up.
The Tru64 release comes with a "Firmware Update V5.6" CD-ROM which
you are supposed to install first. Should I really? My system as
it stands currently has the following characteristics as reported by
"show config":
Aspen Systems Durango II Workstation
SRM Console T4.9-51
VMS Palcode V1.20-1
OSF Palcode V1.22-1
SROM Revision 3.1
Alpha 21164A-2
I'm not even sure which of these the "firmware update" will affect.
Second, I notice that "show os_type" reports "NT". Should I change
it to "unix"?
Thanks in advance,
Mr. Worry Wart
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