Re: [slackware-alphadevel] booting from hard disk

From: Sir Ace (chandleg@wizardsworks.org)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 19:00:29 PST


Ok, I'll look around at compaq, alpha too and see what they have left from
the aftermath...

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Chris Lumens wrote:

> > > If it's aboot's fault, do you know if there is any work underway to do
> > > something about it? It sure would be nice if I could use regular
> > > DOS-style partitions.
> >
> > I don't belive there is... aboot was being maintained by digital before
> > they were bought out by compaq, but I have no idea who is keeping it up
> > now if there is anyone...
> > I can dig around on gatekeeper, but I'm not sure I will find much.
>
> I used to get aboot from a site at debian.org, but that site seems to be
> down or gone or something like that. Now, you can currently get it from
> ftp.alphalinux.org. But I see no active development site. This is very
> strange because I distinctly remember several new versions being released
> a while back.
>
> I'm going to do some more looking and see what I can find. In the
> meantime, I will be hacking on setup. I will be able to boot from my
> hard drive, and that's all there is to it.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
> @n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>

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