Re: Alpha newbie install woes
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Liam Bedford wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 08:54:58 -0600 (CST)
> Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx> blurted in message
> [🔎] Pine.BSO.4.33.0204040854360.5284-100000@campus.iztacala.unam.mx:
>
> > > > MILO has a whole bunch of interesting issues which I remember
> > > > encountering while installing Linux on an AlphaXL (one of the machines
> > > > crippled to be a Windows box only, and hence doesn't run SRM). If your
> > > > machine supports it(and I think all of them will apart from the XL
> > > > series), I'd put SRM on instead.
> > > >
> > > Unfortunately, this machine doesn't even run AlphaBIOS :( Just
> > > ARCSBIOS..
> >
> > It's more or less the same - ARC is the previous name for AlphaBIOS, most
> > changes are cosmetic.
> >
> I had one. it will _not_ run AlphaBIOS. It runs ARCSBIOS, which is a
> Samsung/API bios. (It's not more or less the same as AlphaBIOS, it's
> completely different).
Actually it was written by a company called DeskStation not Samsung/API.
However they are long gone now.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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