[CLUE-Tech] I give up

[Mike Staver]

After the bios update, I now have SRM!  Woo hoo!  Now I think I can
figure out how to boot the debian cd, and start installing linux if I'm
lucky.... now if I could only get that larger drive to work...

Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> 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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