From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 8 10:58:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07656 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ics.com (support [140.186.40.192] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07643 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaleb@ics.com) Received: from ics.com (sunoco.ics.com [140.186.40.142]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id NAA04202 Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:57:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3696551B.84E549C9@ics.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:57:32 -0500 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > This is a perennial problem. At some point *BSD is going to have to > consider how to work under ARC or AlphaBIOS. Probably we'll have to do > something akin to MILO. I looked at the ARC/MILO setup and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the ARC console only groks NTFS. Setting up MILO basically consists of substituting the path to the MILO loader instead of the NTLDR.DLL (or whatever its name is). Meaning you need a way to get an small NTFS partition onto disks. I'm guessing it's a toss-up between which is harder -- installing the SRM firmware or jumping through hoops to put an NTFS partition with MILO on the disk. > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Scot Elliott wrote: > > > On the same subject, I'd like to run FreeBSD Alpha on a machine with a > > 164SX board. It's currently got the NT console installed - and I can't > > get firmware updated from DEC to work. The machine just hangs after a > > minute or so of accessing the floppy disk for the image. > > > > Does this mean that I have to get hold of a firwmare chip with the SRM > > on it - and if so, does anyone know of any UK suppliers, as even DEC don't > > know what I'm talking about when I call them... -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message