From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 21:57:47 -0700 References: AAQBzhBAAAgDAaTsLseeeKUMOBBGyNdf Message-ID: <20040701T215747Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> From: Ben Huntsman Subject: Re: [9fans] bootalphapc To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: b32d3fdc-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 My thoughts also. Using the *BSD Alpha bootloader to boot a Plan9 kernel = shouldn't be impossibly difficult. I also did scrounge up a very = excellent piece of documentation on SRM, and even acquired the OSF = Palcode, which may be of assistance. As for Mr. Collyer's post, do you remember what didn't work and/or why for = the AlphaServer port? Thanks again! >>> George Michaelson 7/1/2004 9:36:05 PM >>> NetBSD Alpha loyalists are.. well loyal. If there is a frob, they are = likely to know about it. It might be hateful, but would booting or boot-strapping via a NetBSD = kernel=20 initialization phase maybe be the way to go? You could acquire control of = a=20 machine in a tolerably well initialized state that way. I don't mean to imply they know any more than anyone here, more that they = do seem to be tenacious, and have squirrelled away a wide variety of the = hosts, the proms/srm revisions, tech notes etc. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/=20 -George