Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:21:21 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> To: isildur@guild.net (Lord Isildur) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, alpha@freebsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912032321.SAA17064@ghost.whirlpool.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991203174831.3171A-100000@guild.net> from Lord Isildur at "Dec 3, 99 05:52:32 pm"
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Lord Isildur writes: > [...] > > certainly, if anyone _needs_ to use BSD with MILO for some strange reason, > it'd be better to modify MILO than BSD. Ok, stupid question.. Is it possible to build a 'boot' for NetBSD that can be loaded by MILO, and have this boot then load the kernel? Rather than hacking MILO to load the kernel directly, or hacking the kernel to be loadable directly? After all, isn't 'boot' responsible for reading in the kernel, and starting it? The differences between SRM devices and MILO devices should be hidden from the kernel. For the average Joe, using the ARC/AlphaBIOS menus to setup booting Linux and/or BSD, etc isn't so bad. Also, the ARC console can boot from some NCR controllers that the SRM can't, etc. Hmm, I wonder if the ARC firmware supports additional video cards also? -Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Gillham | This space left blank gillham@whirlpool.com | inadvertently. I speak for myself, not for my employer. | Contact the publisher. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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