atom feed28 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-alphaRe: alpha PC
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DonFeb 4, 1999 4:32 am 
Adauto SouzaFeb 4, 1999 4:39 am 
Andrew GallatinFeb 4, 1999 6:09 am 
Doug RabsonFeb 4, 1999 6:22 am 
Joerg CzeranskiFeb 4, 1999 6:40 am 
Andrew GallatinFeb 4, 1999 6:53 am 
Scot ElliottFeb 4, 1999 6:56 am 
Stuart KrivisFeb 4, 1999 7:28 am 
Martin HellerFeb 4, 1999 8:19 am 
Todd VierlingFeb 4, 1999 8:26 am 
Ted SpradleyFeb 4, 1999 8:33 am 
Stuart KrivisFeb 4, 1999 8:42 am 
Ted SpradleyFeb 4, 1999 8:47 am 
Matthew JacobFeb 4, 1999 9:41 am 
DonFeb 4, 1999 7:26 pm 
DonFeb 4, 1999 7:46 pm 
Peter WemmFeb 4, 1999 7:54 pm 
Terry LambertFeb 4, 1999 8:08 pm 
Jason ThorpeFeb 4, 1999 8:42 pm 
Jason ThorpeFeb 4, 1999 8:48 pm 
Peter WemmFeb 4, 1999 10:01 pm 
Christian WeisgerberFeb 5, 1999 2:09 am 
Scot ElliottFeb 5, 1999 2:51 am 
Christian WeisgerberFeb 5, 1999 1:35 pm 
DonFeb 5, 1999 1:45 pm 
John BirrellFeb 5, 1999 1:56 pm 
DonFeb 5, 1999 4:50 pm 
Doug RabsonFeb 9, 1999 11:59 am 
Subject:Re: alpha PC
From:Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)
Date:Feb 4, 1999 8:26:40 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-alpha

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Stuart Krivis wrote:

: I am also puzzled as to why *BSD wouldn't work with ARC. ARC is just : another way of calling the boot loader. MILO for Linux works with either : ARC or SRM.

`Read Ross Harvey's message.'

ARC is, essentially, a *very* stripped-down loader. SRM is much more full featured and provides information to the OS that it needs. MILO puts back some of the `missing' information in ARC (which is why it's machine-specific).

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