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Date:      Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:21:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981031002124.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810310242.SAA03797@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote:

...

> > Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation?
>  
>  Any VGA card should do.  Make sure you plug a keyboard in too (or the 
>  SRM console will still use the serial console.
>  
>  I'm using a nasty ISA Cirrus card in one machine and a old S3 PCI card 
>  in another.  The SRM has x86 emulation built in so it can run the card 
>  BIOS (ick!).

Any SRM magic?  I plugged in an old ATI MAch64 and all it gives me is a
dark blue screen with no output at all, and nothing will boot now :-(

Simon


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