Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:27:46 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu> To: "Fehr,Olivier,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT" <Olivier.Fehr@nestle.com> Cc: "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "'Peter Edwards'" <peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com>, "'freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on "Miata" Personal Workstation sans SRM. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0112190822010.6850-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <DB3A59EC1ED8D411983B00D0B7474333049ABC2D@vevgcs01.nestec.ch>
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I have to deal with this all the time as the battery has died in a few of my PWS boxes and the default is the damned AlphaBIOS, so everytime the power goes out here, a few of them end up at with the AlphaBIOS setup instead of SRM: You need to enter setup (F2) and select CMOS settings from the setup menu. In the CMOS settings, you need to select advanced (F6) and at the advanced screen, change the console from Windows NT to Digial UNIX (or OpenVMS). Then exit saving changes and either power cycle the machine, or in my case with the dead battery, press the reset button -- the small inset rectangular switch near the power switch and then it should switch to SRM. Dirk Kleinhesselink On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Fehr,Olivier,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT wrote: > you are right. i have an 500a and activated the srm that way (which made it > an 500au?). the option isn't easy to find though. > FreeBSD is running fine on those boxes. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wilko Bulte > > Sent: mercredi, 19. decembre 2001 16:35 > > To: Peter Edwards > > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on "Miata" Personal Workstation sans SRM. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0000, Peter Edwards wrote: > > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > It is just a matter of flashing the SRM into the flashrom. > > > > But Miatas have both SRM and AlphaBIOS/ARC installed in > > the same flashrom, > > > > you can select from ARC to select SRM on next powerup. > > > > > > > > W/ > > > > > > Hm. I only got 5 mins to play with the box, and didn't see > > an obvious > > > way of doing this. I remember reading that there was a distinction > > > between the "a" and "au" model, and that FreeBSD would only > > boot from > > > > au has a Qlogic SCSI board, a has either an Adaptec SCSI or IDE stuff. > > Nothing else. > > > > > the SRM, not AlphaBIOS. The crack I was smoking probably > > lead me to the > > > conclusion that the "a" model didn't have an SRM. > > > > It hides in 'Advanced options' or somesuch in ARC. Takes a bit of > > searching, but it is there. > > > > Wilko > > -- > > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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