Re: Booting question
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Michael Stroucken wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
>
> > Well....AlphaBIOS is no more, there won't be any updates, though people
> > are still working on MILO. If you want to boot any of the BSDs you'll need
> > SRM. If you're setting up with a new disk I'd say SRM.....if you wanted to
> > not repartition the old disk you could still mount it, though of course
> > not boot from it.
>
> Can SRM support IDE disks yet? AFAICR only Alphabios used to be
> able to boot off of IDE.
Most of the newer platforms can...all EV6, most EV5 I think, not sure
about machines older than that.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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