Re: Can 164SX with AlphaBIOS boot from network?

[Donald White <dbwhite asu edu>]

Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Donald White wrote:
> >
> > Just for fun, I added a 21140 chip based NIC to my Alpha 164SX with
> > AlphaBIOS 5.7.  The BIOS recognized it OK and so I enabled it.  Then I
> > configured a bootp server.  The AlphaBIOS gets its IP address OK.  Next
> > I configured a TFTP server and had the bootp server pass out a boot file
> > name.  A trace with ethereal shows that the 164SX receives the boot file
> > name, but never tries to contact the TFTP server.  After the bootp
> > exchange there is only a single arp request to check for a duplicate IP
> > address.  Is this right or do I have something messed up.
> 
> What exactly are you trying to boot from the server? MILO?
> 
> --Jay++
> 
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Jay,

Yes, of course, I don't have a real boot file, but you suspected that. 
I just gave it a name to see what would happen as I could find no
documentation, a bit of experimental computer science.  I am working on
a research OS called Sombrero.  See http://www.eas.asu.edu/~sasos.  I am
looking for a way to load an AlphaBIOS application over the network
rather than from the run maintenance program menu selection.

Does AlphaBIOS provide an API to the NIC?  The ADK shows one for the
SCSI adapter.  I was hoping to develop some AlphaBIOS applications to do
prototyping for future Sombrero device drivers.

Don