Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:45:40 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is src/sys/boot/arc/loader? Message-ID: <20010325194540.A9351@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <3ABE1641.0001E1.51316@frodo.searchcanada.ca>; from michael@fastmail.ca on Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:01:05AM -0500 References: <3ABE1641.0001E1.51316@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:01:05AM -0500, Michael Richards wrote: > I'm working on narrowing down the problem with the loader and I came > across something in the source. When I built it, I noticed that there > was a loader.exe file built in: src/sys/boot/arc/loader/loader.exe > > file loader.exe > loader.exe: MS Windows COFF Alpha object file > > It's a windows file... > > This strikes me odd. Does this mean that FreeBSD can be booted using > AlphaBIOS (which incidentally supports the Adaptec SCSI card that the > non-boot disks are on)? No. This is a work-in-progress thingy. There is still a lot missing, not in the last place the PAL-code issue. See the mailing list archives. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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