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- From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: VS4090 fddi boot?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.095522.60804@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 09:55:22 MDT
- References: <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1dv97cINNqe6@fnnews.fnal.gov>, jhf@d0xs1.fnal.gov (John Featherly) writes:
- >
- > Tried many things, VAX console ROM is clueless about FCA0 ...
- > the most promising turned out to be "t tc0 boot mop" in the MIPS emulator
- > but still no go (yes I did change the hardware address on the load host).
-
- I'm not entirely certain, but I don't think you'll be able to boot from
- something in the TURBOchannel slot. I'm not sure how someone might go about
- interfacing VAX VMB code to a bootstrap writting in interpreted MIPS code.
-
- I also suspect that console drivers on a TURBOchannel modules won't work.
- --
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- Roger Ivie "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
- ivie@cc.usu.edu It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
- into mutants!"
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