From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 8 10:35:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04273 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from soho.london.virgin.net (soho.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04267 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 10:35:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from kirk.london.virgin.net (kirk.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.227]) by soho.london.virgin.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19232 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:35:04 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by kirk.london.virgin.net (8.9.1b+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09547 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:35:02 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.london.virgin.net: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:35:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console In-Reply-To: <199901081700.SAA03748@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On the same subject, I'd like to run FreeBSD Alpha on a machine with a 164SX board. It's currently got the NT console installed - and I can't get firmware updated from DEC to work. The machine just hangs after a minute or so of accessing the floppy disk for the image. Does this mean that I have to get hold of a firwmare chip with the SRM on it - and if so, does anyone know of any UK suppliers, as even DEC don't know what I'm talking about when I call them... Thanks. Scot. On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As wilko wrote... > > > As Aspen Tech support refered me to Aspen Tech sales for a SRM ROM > > and Aspen Tech sales does not seem to read email I decided to bluntly > > dump an EB64plus SRM console ROM into the Aspen Alpine board. > > > > Surprise: seems to work.. The Alpine does not have an ethernet i/f onboard, > > the EB64+ does (it seems, I've never seen one in real life) but the SRM > > does not seem to care too much. Digital Unix collapses with a panic > > though.. when I try to boot an install CD. > > You'd expect I know better after years of hardware hacking but: there was > a memory jumper set wrong. The board correctly told me it had 64Mb, but it > was set for a single bank 4x16Mb instead of for a dual bank 2x4x8Mb. > > Both Dunix and NetBSD stopped crashing after the board was setup correctly > 8-) > > I plan to port the NetBSD EB64+ specific bits to FreeBSD/axp (hopefully > soon..) > > Wilko > _ ______________________________________________________________________ > | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl > |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl > ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott Mobile: +44 (0)7050 126045 Work: scot@london.virgin.net +44 (0)171 479 4482 Play: scot@poptart.org, scot@indiekid.co.uk, s@cx +44 (0)181 896 1019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html Fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message