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From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 05:32:30AM -0400, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 11:28:58AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > Yes. But booting from it for example you can most likely forget. 
> > And given that Alpha machines often contain PCI bridge chips to get to 
> > (generally the # of slots >> PCs ) you might be restricted to what 
> > slots your card works in. So YMMV
> 
> Why the trouble booting?

If the SRM console does not recognise the card it won't be able to boot
from it. Alpha's do not use the BIOS that some/most cards bring.
The list of SRM supported and hence bootable adapters is rather short.
And varies per Alpha model.

Have you read HARDWARE.TXT? If not, do so, a lot of this is covered there.

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