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Date: Wed,  4 Jan 2006 08:39:24 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] old alpha boot question
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the alpha bootloader is full-on.  you can run "ps" e.g.
i can find out details from the guy who wrote it.
send me a private with any and all questions.
'tis the season to be jolly.

brucee

On 1/4/06, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> I think it was just done that way for convenience when debugging
> the port. From what I remember, the Alpha firmware will happily boot
> from a floppy if you have the layout correct, and the layout is
> something trivial like a start address and a count of following
> blocks to load.
>
> --jim
>
> On Tue Jan  3 15:10:14 EST 2006, BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote:
>
> > Anyone remember off the top of their heads why the Alpha bootloader had=
 to be downloaded over TFTP?  Is there a good reason why it couldn't be sta=
rted from a floppy (or hard disk)?
> >
> > Last time I tried to get it up and running, the Alpha boot stuff didn't=
 like being served from a non-Plan9 server...
> >
> > ...and yes, I know the Alpha is dying.  I'm not giving mine up, though.
> >
> > -Ben
>