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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:45:40 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is src/sys/boot/arc/loader?
Message-ID:  <20010325194540.A9351@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3ABE1641.0001E1.51316@frodo.searchcanada.ca>; from michael@fastmail.ca on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:01:05AM -0500
References:  <3ABE1641.0001E1.51316@frodo.searchcanada.ca>

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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:01:05AM -0500, Michael Richards wrote:
> I'm working on narrowing down the problem with the loader and I came 
> across something in the source. When I built it, I noticed that there 
> was a loader.exe file built in: src/sys/boot/arc/loader/loader.exe
> 
> file loader.exe 
> loader.exe: MS Windows COFF Alpha object file
> 
> It's a windows file...
> 
> This strikes me odd. Does this mean that FreeBSD can be booted using 
> AlphaBIOS (which incidentally supports the Adaptec SCSI card that the 
> non-boot disks are on)?

No. This is a work-in-progress thingy. There is still a lot missing, not in
the last place the PAL-code issue. See the mailing list archives.

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