I am also attempting to boot netbsd onto an XL266 which has
	the 21064 chip.  Which of the two categories does this chip
	fall into


On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Martin Heller wrote:

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> On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, G. Scott Lloyd wrote:
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> > I've put together a new system consisting of a AlphaPC 164 motherboard
> > and a 21164-P7 CPU (500 MHz for NT) with the intent of running *BSD. The
> > system will not even boot the SRM console. I tried another 21164-P7 chip
> > and it behaves the same (no boot SRM). The P7 chips boot the ARC console
> > and run NT just fine. If I plug in a 21164-P6 (433 MHz), the SRM console
> > boots fine. Apparently DEC has followed through with crippling the NT
> > versions of the Alpha chips starting with P7 so that you can't run digital
> > UNIX (and apparently the SRM console which is of interest here) without
> > spending a few thousand dollars more for the UNIX version of the chips?
> > Is this true? What other issues are involved here?
> there are two versions of Alpha CPUs . One for NT + ARC console only and
> one for Digital UNIX + SRM & NT + ARC . These CPUs are more expensive, as
> this extra money is used for the development of Digital UNIX.
> 
> > 
> > Without a working  SRM console from DEC, are there any alternative
> > consoles that can boot *BSD, or are there plans to make or adapt a
> > console (like the Linux lilo) to *BSD ?
> > 
> I don`t think so ....
> 
> MARTIN
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