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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


-- 
Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org



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