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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!pasteur.fr!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Q:IDE on Alpha Date: 18 Mar 1997 16:42:04 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5gmgks$8od$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <332D6650.F9D@osu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ipv6.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5662 Karl N. Matthias (matthias.3@osu.edu) wrote: > From what I have seen, it appears that IDE drives are not supported on > Alpha, is this correct? My understanding is that this is at least it > part due to the SRM console not supporting them. Linux MILO does, > however. Does anyone know if it is possible to boot NetBSD/Alpha from > IDE using Linux MILO, or whether there is another way? Or does > something need to be done to the kernel? Any info appreciated! Thanks As far as I know, ide drives are not supported by the NetBSD kernel yet, so you can't boot from an ide drive (at last you can't read anyhing from it once the kernel is loaded). -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --