Cheers
That looks interesting and may well help.
I'll have a good look at it and see if I can sort it.
Shame to have a decent server like the DEC Alpha 3kr and not run a _proper_
OS on it!
J
At 19:07 07/07/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>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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