Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:35:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott <scot@london.virgin.net> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9901081832000.6575-100000@kirk.london.virgin.net> In-Reply-To: <199901081700.SAA03748@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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
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