Subject: Re: DE-101 and Jensen?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/23/2000 16:37:34
At 04:14 PM 2/23/00 , Simon Burge wrote:
>Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:48:43AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > > At 08:41 PM 2/22/00 , Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > > >Anyone know off-hand if a Jensen can netboot off a DE-101 (8-bit DEPCA)?
> > >
> > > I think you need either a DE422 (EISA DEPCA) or a DE20[345] (lc).
> >
> > Or a DE425.
> >
> > Maybe even DEFEA (fddi ;-)
>
>Just curious, do any models of alpha actually boot from a FDDI card?
>Certainly on the pmax we couldn't boot via MOP over DEFTAs, and had a
>few boxes with the root filesystem mounted over ethernet and everything
>else over the FDDI cards....
All of them basically, even the turbochannel ones (thanks to the MIPS emulator
in the TC machines SRM). I've booted netbsd over a DEFTA by fixing root to fta0.
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