From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 4 07:28:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00613 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from junior.apk.net (junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00607 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:28:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@apk.net) Received: from localhost by junior.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA07327 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:28:36 -0500 (EST) X-Real-To: Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:28:36 -0500 (EST) From: Stuart Krivis To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC In-Reply-To: <14009.43171.354667.121615@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 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, Andrew Gallatin 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. The present configuration > > is able to run both Linux (running right now) and > > Windows NT. Under Linux the system starts from MILO. > > > Here are instructions. They assume you purchased the systems with SRM > and they were accidentally shipped with the AlphaBios (or else you > might be violating a license). You may want to verify that you have a I don't think that there are any license issues involved. DEC makes ARC and SRM available on their web site and it seems that anyone with an Alpha is free to use them. I am also puzzled as to why *BSD wouldn't work with ARC. ARC is just another way of calling the boot loader. MILO for Linux works with either ARC or SRM. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message