Booting Alpha from Floppy??

[Oliver Lehmann]

John Weez wrote:

> I'd like to boot my Alpha 164LX running FreeBSD 5.1 from floppy instead 
> of SCSI drive. Is this possible?

If I'm not mistaken, it should be "boot dva0" at the srm-prompt. Look for
"show dev"

> tried are loud too. So, I was thinking of  getting an IDE card and 
> hooking some IDE drives to it. I did not want to use the internal IDE 
> connection of the Alpha 164LX because I heard it is very slow.

CMD 646 WDMA2 controller -> 16 MB/sec (man ad)

Dunno if its that slow... Only device I have attached to is an CD drive..

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