From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 4 06:56:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25487 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:56:59 -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 GAA25480 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:56:57 -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 OAA13891 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:56:54 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 OAA00778 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:56:52 GMT (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kirk.london.virgin.net: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:56:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC In-Reply-To: <199902041440.PAA24216@zaphod.in.tu-clausthal.de> 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 Yeah... it took me ages before I could get those working though... the AlphaBIOS doesn't seem to like the files in that directory. You do need to get the older .rom file and flash that with fwupdate.exe. Once you've got SRM on the machine, you can upgrade to the newer release by booting from a floppy which was made from burning the .exe file in the alphapc164sx/lx directory with the mkboot.exe tool in pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/utilities. Does anyone know if it's possible to flash the newer firmware file directly from AlphaBIOS? DEC's documentation seems a bit lacking here. On a similar note, DEC Unix 4.0d won't install on a 164SX - is it supposed to? Scot. On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Joerg Czeranski wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > There is an SRM for the 164LX. I don't think its available in the newer > > firmware releases but I have a copy from around v5.0. There isn't enough > > flash space to have both SRM and AlphaBIOS loaded at the same time, so > > switching is painful. Apart from that it works quite well. > > It's also available in the current firmware release (was an SRM firmware > ever dropped from newer firmware releases?), e.g. on Gatekeeper: > > ftp.digital.com:/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.3/alphapc164lx > > joerch > > 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