From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 9 18:50:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9933637BB34 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from magus+@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Pal VMS References: <20000707161109.L15683@beastie.localdomain> <20000708170042.E16030@vuurwerk.nl> From: Nat Lanza Date: 09 Jul 2000 21:50:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: Peter van Dijk's message of "Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:00:42 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter van Dijk writes: > To be exact, there are globally two versions of Alpha firmware - ARC and > SRM. One is for booting NT (the Linux loader MILO works with it too, and > those are the only two IIRC), the other is for booting VMS and OSF/1 > (Digital Unix). You need the second one (which is SRM if I recall > correctly, I keep mixing them up) for FreeBSD/OpenBSD and friends too. You can also boot Linux from SRM, but it's a pain in the ass to set it up. It's worth it, though, 'cause then you get a handy serial console. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message