Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:36:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org>, Armin Ollig <armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de>, Oliver.Kowalke@freudenberg.de, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux + FreeBSD on alpha (lx164) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909281035460.79836-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909280956050.322-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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> > > > > > oliver, > > > > > > afaik SRM cannot boot from ide devices. > > > Either boot from floppy or get a cheap NCR53810. > > > I had to try several cards. The ASUS board with the 53810 chip does > > > **NOT** work. I finally found one board which does work. I think its > > > made by symbios. It has little dolphins on the board :-) > > > and works well. > > > > As early as v5.1, the SRM console will boot IDE devices. I ran > > NetBSD/alpha on an lx164 a long long time ago. :) Also, I have found > > that the Tekram cards based on the 53c875 work fine as well. > > I'm pretty sure it boots IDE disks but I can't get my Miata to boot from > an IDE cdrom though. boots dqa0 for me on my pc164.. haven'd tried cdrom either To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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