Re: Cheating on Half-Flash Alphas, was RE: Everyone's SRM woes

[Eric Dittman <dittman dittman net>]

> Type "AlphaBIOS" or "ARC" and the system will look for the ROM image on a
> floppy.  If you have AlphaBIOS 5.7 on floppy (as any good Alpha
> administrator who supports NT would) you can boot AlphaBIOS without having
> it in ROM.  Its slow as molasses but it does work and is a little known
> cheat on half-flash Alphas.  Most of the PWS line, except for the "A" models
> had 2MB flash EEPROM and could hold SRM and AlphaBIOS concurrently, all you
> had to do was to switch console to run the OS of your choice.

My 500a has both SRM and AlphaBIOS resident.
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Eric Dittman
dittman@dittman.net