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Date: Fri,  2 Jul 2004 11:40:18 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootalphapc
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On Fri Jul  2 01:09:06 EDT 2004, mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:
>
> > As for Mr. Collyer's post, do you remember what didn't work and/or why for the AlphaServer port?
>
> i got the kernel loaded via the usual means (srm+bootp) but could get
> no interrupts working for the ethernet so i couldn't mount the file
> server... (i.e. i got it up to 'root is from:')
>
> andrey

Fixing problems like that is not usually too difficult,
by looking at the *BSD code as has been mentioned.
Jean Mehat <jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr> did it recently for one
of the Alpha DECstations.

There is a wealth of information out there about the
hardware and how to make it work. It's a pity the companies
who bought the pieces of Digital didn't inherit their
attention to documentation.