Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:06:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901081104260.2496-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <3696551B.84E549C9@ics.com>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > 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. > No, it groks 'DOS'. But here's how this works- you have the normal dos label which we've come to loathe, and you blow one partition (~5MB) to hold the loader. This is a requirement even for NT/Alpha. This is not that onerous. Just stupid. AlphaBIOS may do different- but I don't really know the details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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