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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 13:02:58 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>
To:        Daniel Jung <daniel@mimiland.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: promise ultra100TX2
Message-ID:  <20020508125923.Q258-100000@trillian.santala.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96LJ1.1b7.1020508183339.4759A-100000@blade.cybersurfer.net>

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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Daniel Jung wrote:

> Is it possible to boot from a disk that is connected to this controller?
> show dev from SRM doesn't seem to detect the disk that is
> connected to this controller.

The rule of thumb is that if 'show dev' doesn't see it, you can't boot
from it. Of course, you could probably use something else to get things
going and have the actual system on a disk controlled by the Promise card.

You read the Hardware Notes for alpha didn't you? If not:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware-alpha.html

	-jake

-- 
Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>            http://www.iki.fi/~jake/
System Administrator                    2001:670:83:f08::/64



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