Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:22:36 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual booting Alpha 500au Message-ID: <15482.58204.795303.62715@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020226112539.B36952-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20020226112539.B36952-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Wilkinson,Alex writes: > Howdy, > > I am just wondering if it would be possible to dual boot an Alpha 500au > with Tru64 Unix and FreeBSD ? Yes, if you have multiple disks. (1 per OS) > Are the OSs booted from the SRM or a bootloader (such like boot0 in FreeBSD) > on Alpha Machines? The SRM loads a tiny first stage bootloader, which then loads /boot/loader. > In fact can anyone point me to a resource that explains the boot process of > and Alpha. ie does all booting occur via the SRM ? The "brown book" (Alpha Architecture Reference Manual by the Alpha Arch. Committe, 3rd edition). Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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