RE: Alpha parts

["Mike Foley" <mike-spam yelof com>]

	If SRM can't see the fancy IDE controller you
	are using, but can see the onboard IDE controller,
	you could do what you mentioned. Stick a small IDE
	drive on the onboard controller and make put the
	boot partition on that. Then the rest of the partitions
	can go on the IDE drive on the unbootable controller.

	Works well for SCSI cards that don't show up in SRM.

	Now if DBLX (direct boot Linux a.k.a. Linux in the boot
	rom) was available, you'd have a Linux kernel instead
	of SRM and you could boot off damned near anything.

							mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: axp-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-admin@redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Mike Tibor
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:23 PM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Alpha parts
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Island (hpaq.net) wrote:
> 
> > Well ... we have all the parts for Alpha PWS systems
> >
> > You'll need a SRM bootable Ultra Wide SCSI controller $99
> 
> If he's going IDE, wouldn't it be possible to have SRM boot from a smaller
> drive hooked to the onboard IDE, and then have most of the system reside
> on a larger IDE drive hooked to a faster controller?
> 
> I haven't done IDE on any of my Alphas, (and in fact I've never even
> played with a PWS) so maybe there's something I'm overlooking.
> 
> Mike
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