From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 4 06:22:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21584 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA21570 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA50437; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:22:40 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:22:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Don cc: Adauto Souza , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Don wrote: > > I've tried to install both FreeBSD and OpenBSD but > > I face problems with the BIOS. Indeed the machines > > have Alpha BIOS instead SRM. > FreeBSD does not yet support booting from AlphaBIOS. > The FreeBSD Alpha team is working on a solution for this problem but until > they come up with something like MILO for you need to be using the SRM > firmware. I dont know if the 164LX has SRM available for it but you would > have to check DEC's site or the archives for that one. There is an SRM for the 164LX. I don't think its available in the newer firmware releases but I have a copy from around v5.0. There isn't enough flash space to have both SRM and AlphaBIOS loaded at the same time, so switching is painful. Apart from that it works quite well. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message