On Friday 26 October 2001 14:45, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:44:48PM -0400, GNUOrder wrote:
> > On Friday 05 October 2001 07:06, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > > > > There is no such thing as a 64-bit SCSI board that's supported =
by
> > > > > the old SRM, so far as I can tell.  You will have to use a chea=
p
> > > > > one to boot.  :(
> > > >
> > > > Really?  By "old SRM", do you mean all SRM versions for PC164, or=
 do
> > > > you mean I could upgrade to a newer version which might support a
> > > > 64bit card? I'm fearing you mean the former...
> > >
> > > Digital (err... Compaq err... HPaq?) long ago stopped adding new
> > > device driver support to SRM for the PC164.  This basically means y=
ou
> > > will have the best chances for booting with a card from that era, a=
nd
> > > most preferably a DEC-labeled card -- that goes for both SCSI and
> > > Ethernet.
> >
> > You could always try LinuxBIOS.  They have it running for the ds10's,=
 not
> > sure about PC164 support.  Despite the linux name, it can be used to =
net
> > boot and boot up BSD from what I hear.=20
> > http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/
>
> Maybe I'm stupid, but DS10 has a fully functional, uptodate SRM.
> Why put LinuxBIOS on that machine type?

Well in their case it was to boot up and join a cluster faster.  Also sup=
port=20
for cards that srm doesn't support.