[CLUE-Tech] I give up

[Randy Arabie]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mike Staver wrote:

> Thank you, I tried looking for the doc on this list earlier because I
> remember seeing it, but I was unable to find it.  I'll look a little
> closer this time :) I'm not sure what the boot os is, but it says
> Alphabios, and has prompts in the menus for installing NT/Windows 2000. 

That is ARC, the 'wrong' firmware for *NIX.

> I didn't realize I needed to *install* SRM, from the docs on the debian
> pages I've found, they make it sound like all I had to do was dig around
> until I found the srm console in the bios, which I've been trying do to
> since early yesterday afternoon.  But, now that I know that I need to
> install SRM, that makes more sense.  

Well, I just took a look at some doco on the NetBSD Port Alpha site, and 
apparently some Linux distros will work with ARC.

  http://http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#why-firmware. 
(The NetBSD Port Alpha site is the best source of Alpha doco I could 
find on the web, much of it relevant to Linux too)

Most of the doco I read suggested installing SRM.  The SRM firmware is here:  

http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/

The SRM installation doco is there too.

Happy Hacking!
-- 
Cheers!

Randy

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