Subject: Re: Booting from IDE on Multia
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/22/2000 22:30:03
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ross Harvey wrote:

> > From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
> >
> > 	Would it be feasible to build a special multa bootloader that
> > 	used the old buggy milo PALcode to load the kernel? Once was
> > 	loaded everything could switch to SRM?
> 
> Uhh, if you had SRM, you wouldn't be booting from ARC. If you were booting
> from ARC, there would be no SRM to switch to. And you boot from ARC
> using the NT palcode, by making ARC callbacks...the thing you need the
> OSF/1 palcode for is running the kernel, not for booting it.
> 
> Or did I completely misunderstand the question?

	Could you embed the Multia SRM in a bootloader, similar to
	milo?

		David/absolute