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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Subject: Re: howto boot alpha via SRM without supported SCSI controller
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:58:51 -0500
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To: Joakim Roubert <jokke@df.lth.se>
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:40:53AM +0200, Joakim Roubert wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote:
>=20
> > > milo:
> > I wouldn't do that.
>=20
> Me neither; I used to run milo, but then switched to SRM. The only reason
> I see to usethe milo solution with ARC is if one has to use Windows on the
> same machine (or if no SRM is available).

Or if your disks are not partitioned with the DEC partition table.

I successfully converted a disk enough to boot.  But it was not the
most simple process to do so in a non-destructive way.

-- John