On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:03:17 +0100 Inhabitantofzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI > > I recently was given by a business friend of mine one of the above a 3000R > (well I had to give him a small fee for a few beers). > > It is fully functioning and has the 500mhz Alpha processor on it and 2gb of > on board ram etc etc... does not have any SCSI HDD's with it. > > He says it can only run Win NT4 because they kludged the BIOS on these > machines. They have coded the BIOS to Win NT 4 only. > > Does anybody on here have an idea what they might have done to the BIOS > (How I find out what they have done) and what would I have to do to get > around what they have done? > > If somebody could get me started in the right direction that would help. I > really wanted to get Linux installed on it... > > John I found this: http://www.linuxalpha.org/faq/alphabios-howto.html . HTH, -Frans
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