[wplug] [OT] Booting Linux on a Compaq AlphaPC?

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Tue Jul 29 23:31:36 EDT 2003


This one time, at band camp, Alexandros Papadopoulos said:
> I still don't get a chance to 
> reach the traditional BIOS utility, but am instead tossed to the SRM console.

If this is like the alpha I used to have, there isn't a 'traditional BIOS 
utility', SRM is the equivalent. There was another pre-OS environment, but 
I can't remember the name for it. There was an SRM command to switch to 
use that.

-james





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