From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 03:46:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21482 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21470 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA15450; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:20:05 GMT Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:20:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: <199810312351.PAA01388@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation? > > > > > > Any VGA card should do. Make sure you plug a keyboard in too (or the > > > SRM console will still use the serial console. > > > > > > I'm using a nasty ISA Cirrus card in one machine and a old S3 PCI card > > > in another. The SRM has x86 emulation built in so it can run the card > > > BIOS (ick!). > > > > Actually, this is good news, as the DPT boots itself with the BIOS. The > > new ones even have the DPTMGR (RIAD setup, etc.) running right there. > > You will probably lose with this one, unfortunately. The SRM BIOS > emulation seems specifically for video card BIOS code. > > If I am mistaken, and it both initialises the DPT and also calls the > int19 bootstrap handler, then I will be surprised (and happy). AlphaBIOS supports using the SCSI bios for booting from adapters which it doesn't have built-in drivers for. Not that it helps much in this case. You might need another supported SCSI controller to boot from :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message