Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:02:49 +0100 From: "Fehr,Olivier,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT" <Olivier.Fehr@nestle.com> To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, 'Peter Edwards' <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on "Miata" Personal Workstation sans SRM. Message-ID: <DB3A59EC1ED8D411983B00D0B7474333049ABC2D@vevgcs01.nestec.ch>
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you are right. i have an 500a and activated the srm that way (which made it an 500au?). the option isn't easy to find though. FreeBSD is running fine on those boxes. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wilko Bulte > Sent: mercredi, 19. decembre 2001 16:35 > To: Peter Edwards > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on "Miata" Personal Workstation sans SRM. > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0000, Peter Edwards wrote: > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > It is just a matter of flashing the SRM into the flashrom. > > > But Miatas have both SRM and AlphaBIOS/ARC installed in > the same flashrom, > > > you can select from ARC to select SRM on next powerup. > > > > > > W/ > > > > Hm. I only got 5 mins to play with the box, and didn't see > an obvious > > way of doing this. I remember reading that there was a distinction > > between the "a" and "au" model, and that FreeBSD would only > boot from > > au has a Qlogic SCSI board, a has either an Adaptec SCSI or IDE stuff. > Nothing else. > > > the SRM, not AlphaBIOS. The crack I was smoking probably > lead me to the > > conclusion that the "a" model didn't have an SRM. > > It hides in 'Advanced options' or somesuch in ARC. Takes a bit of > searching, but it is there. > > Wilko > -- > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > > 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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