Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:20:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811011117510.366-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199810312351.PAA01388@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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