On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Ryan Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> > Joel Jaeggli writes:
> > ->None of AMD's named vendors (asus,gigabyte,fic,biostar) have even
> > ->announced products yet.
> >
> > I have read on internet (www.aceshardware.com I think) that you
> > can use existing alpha mb to put K7 into it.
>
> I would be skeptical this could work because such a motherboard would
> probably not have a BIOS that would be compatible the K7 that could boot
> anything.
>
> I'd bet the console program in ROM on any Alpha motherboards would be tied
> very closely to the Alpha architecture.
>
> The linux kernel still needs a BIOS to boot.
>
> Of course if the booting problem could be overcome, then maybe things
> could work.
>
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