Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:27:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem Message-ID: <20021016021238.S73206-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> In-Reply-To: <20021016024614.A1004@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Hi guys,
I *finally* managed to get a serial console to work. For some odd
reason my ThinkPad 600 refused to work, but my trusty dual PII/400 FreeBSD
box never fails...
Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7
Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation
Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Semiconductor
A Digital Equipment Corporation business
September 1996
Boot menu:
Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter.
1. Boot Windows NT Server Version 4.00
2. Boot an alternate operating system...
3. Run a program...
4. Supplementary menu...
Enter your selection: 4
Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7
Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation
Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Semiconductor
A Digital Equipment Corporation business
September 1996
Supplementary menu:
Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter.
1. Install new firmware...
2. Install Windows NT from CD-ROM
3. Set up the system...
4. Display hardware configuration
5. Boot menu...
Enter your selection: 1
Searching for the update tool on CD-ROM and floppy...
Timeout on keyboard controller or keyboard initialization.
All I/O is going to serial port #1.
Initializing firmware update.
...........DSDN No mouse detected.
Initializing device drivers: ATAPI ...OK.
Initializing Flash Driver: Intel 28F008SA
Firmware Update menu:
Firmware Update menu:
1. Update Firmware
3. Restart the system
N - Next menu (if any)...
P - Previous menu (if any)...
Enter your selection: 1
Locating Image: multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom
Loading multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom...done
Checking Image...OK
Really update flash with 'multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom'?
1. Yes
2. No
Enter your selection: 1
Flashing image at offset 0x10000
Writing Flash Block: 1W 2W 3W 4W 5W 6W 7W 8W 9W
Verifying Flash Block: 1V 2V 3V 4V 5V 6V 7V 8V 9V
Console selection does not match flashed image. Console selection:
Windows NT New Firmware: OpenVMSUpdate console sele?
1. Yes
2. No
Enter your selection: 1
Console selection set to OpenVMS
Flash Update Complete.
Press any key to continue...
Firmware Update menu:
Firmware Update menu:
1. Update Firmware
3. Restart the system
N - Next menu (if any)...
P - Previous menu (if any)...
Enter your selection: 3
Restarting the system
Image found at 10000
Image base in flash is 80300000
Jumping to new image at 300000...
Address = 00300000
Memory Size = 08000000
Clock Cycle Period = 000007d0
System Revision = decb0001
Active Processors = 00000001
System Context Value = 00000000
*** keyboard not plugged in...
ff.fe.fd.fc.fb.fa.f9.f8.f7.f6.f5.f3.f2.f1.f0.
ef.b0.b1.b2.b3.ee.ed.ec.f4.eb.ea.e9.e8.e7.
Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz Console V5.5-1, Jul 14 1999 12:37:45
>>>set console graphics
>>>init
It worked!
>>>show config
Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz
SRM Console: V5.5-1
PALcode: OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-9, Digital UNIX PALcode V1.23-8
SROM Revision: UNKNOWN
Alpha 21164A-2
DECchip (tm) 21172 CIA ASIC Pass 3
Thank you guys for being patient with me. :)
Now, does anyone know where I can find cheap RAM for this thing?
128M will do for now, but I'm going to want more.
Thanks,
Josh
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > Hi Bernd,
> > I haven't successfully made a serial connection to the Alpha. I'm
> > going to continue working with the Alpha tonight, and now I have the
> > settings that Wilko provided, but I'm not familiar with serial consoles at
> > all. I guess I'm going to use Kermit, but I'm not sure if I need to make
> > Kermit "listen" or "connect" or other things of the sort.
>
> I've successfully used minicom to do this. My minicom setup (assuming the
> first serial port looks like this:
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/minicom/minirc.cuaa0
> # Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters.
> pr port /dev/cuaa0
> pu baudrate 9600
> pu bits 8
> pu parity N
> pu stopbits 1
>
> Minicom is in ports (comms/minicom).
>
> --
> Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com
> Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
> Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
>
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