6 Sep
2006
6 Sep
'06
9:24 p.m.
I am trying to get an Alpha Station LX300 to run OpenVMS. When I power the
machine up, it appears to be using the AlphaBIOS and it wishes to use
Windows NT.
Is it possible to update the BIOS to use SRM so that I can install OpenVMS,
or is this machine doomed to run WindowsNT?
Thanks for any information you can supply.
--barrym
7 Sep
7 Sep
1:24 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:24:56 -0600
"b m" <pdp11owner at gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to update the BIOS to use SRM so that I
can install
OpenVMS, or is this machine doomed to run WindowsNT?
AFAIK the LX300 is a WindowsNT
only machine, no SRM, no VMS, no OSF/1,
no *BSD. I think it can run Linux too.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
3:32 a.m.
On Thu, 2006-09-07 10:24:20 +0200, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:24:56 -0600
"b m" <pdp11owner at gmail.com> wrote:
Even if there's no SRM, it should be possible to boot Linux by first
booting MILO. From there, you can boot the Linux kernel.
(MILO is some hacked Linux kernel to be bootable from the AlphaBIOS
stuff. It was based on some old kernel version, hacked by SuSE
employees, but AFAIK, this stuff was never ever really forward-ported,
and ISTR that not everything was open-sourced and/or freely available
due to unknown reasons. So this is definitively something to keep an
eye on!)
MfG, JBG
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Is it possible to update the BIOS to use SRM so
that I can install
OpenVMS, or is this machine doomed to run WindowsNT?
AFAIK the LX300 is a
WindowsNT only machine, no SRM, no VMS, no OSF/1,
no *BSD. I think it can run Linux too. 
9:20 a.m.
b m wrote:
I am trying to get an Alpha Station LX300 to run
OpenVMS. When I
power the
machine up, it appears to be using the AlphaBIOS and it wishes to use
Windows NT.
Most of the packages I have with vms, or with dec unix came with a
firmware update cd that would switch it to either mode. contact me
if you cant get one.
Jim
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