Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:47:47 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "jalovell@knology.net" <jalovell@knology.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM Message-ID: <20041029154747.GB513@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net> References: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>
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I'll have a check when I am back home to see what stuff I do (or do not) have on the 164LX. Will take till Sunday or Monday evening, please be patient. Wilko On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:19:09PM -0000, jalovell@knology.net wrote.. > I know this must have been gone over so many times, but I don't know how to > search the mailing list archive to find the answer. OK I just aquired a > 164lx setup and it previously had windows NT so it was running alphabios. > Well, I found out what I have to do is get SRM console on, so I read > instructions and download the firmware program, renaming it to fwupdate.exe > > I boot the system and go through the update. The system appears to reboot > then goes to a blue screen where it basically tells me i'm missing nt_fw. > I hear I'm supposed to have some file like srm_fw.sys, which I cannot find > anywhere. > > OK, try two. I get this lx164srm.rom file which is ever so praised, stick > it on a formatted floppy and do the upgrade procedure. The Alphabios tells > me there is no update found on that floppy. So, now I'm stuck. I really > want to know how to get the SRM console on my Alpha, but nothing works. --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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