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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:41:00 -0700
From:      Ben Black <black@layer8.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM?
Message-ID:  <19990627124100.F97236@layer8.net>
In-Reply-To: <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 03:15:42PM -0400
References:  <19990627115015.D97236@layer8.net> <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com> <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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It worked!  Thanks so much!

On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 03:15:42PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Mike Smith writes:
>  > > I got no response when asking this before, so I'll add in a bit more data
>  > > and see if anyone can help out.
>  > > 
>  > > Having failed completely to update the firmware through the AlphaBIOS GUI,
>  > > I switched to the fail-safe boot.  The output is as follows:
>  > 
>  > You can't do it any other way.  You need to find one of the old-style
>  > "fwupdate.exe" files (the large ones) and an SRM ROM image that will
>  > both fit on a floppy.
>  > 
> 
> Hint: you can get the srm image at
> ftp://ftp.decsy.ru/alpha/FirmWare/164SX/SRM-T4.9/sx164srm.rom
> 
> Try to find a later fwupdate.exe  (the one at that site gave us
> problems when attempting to update the 164sx at USENIX).  I've left
> the one we used at USENIX at 
> http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/fwupdate.exe
> 
> Drew
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