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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 00:24:56 -0600
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        platanthera <platanthera@web.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Samsung 164UX?
Message-ID:  <20040524062456.GA15668@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <200405240730.15078.platanthera@web.de>
References:  <200405240730.15078.platanthera@web.de>

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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:30:12AM +0200, platanthera wrote:
> hi there.
> 
> the hardware notes state that one can't run FreeBSD on a Samsung 164UX 
> board. please tell me that this information wrong/outdated/whatever.. 
> since it seems to be the only alpha pc board with an appropriate number 
> of pci slots

Here's your big problem:

FreeBSD requires SRM.
There is no SRM for the 164UX.

Unless you are prepared to hack MILO and/or FreeBSD to work with each other
you're basically out of luck.

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Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis@eyesbeyond.com
Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
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