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Date: Fri,  2 Jul 2004 14:36:05 +1000
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootalphapc
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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
initialization phase maybe be the way to go? You could acquire control of a
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/

-George