From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 25 17:23:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9785937B41D for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13905; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:23:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1Q1Mao05158; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:22:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15482.58204.795303.62715@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:22:36 -0500 (EST) To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual booting Alpha 500au In-Reply-To: <20020226112539.B36952-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20020226112539.B36952-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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