From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 23 11:15:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26656 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:15:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sensi.spb.su (fil-1.dux.ru [193.124.28.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26632 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vadik@sensi.spb.su) Received: (from vadik@localhost) by sensi.spb.su (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00820; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:15:36 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from vadik) Message-ID: <19981023221536.A803@sensi.spb.su> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:15:36 +0400 From: vadik likholetov To: David Seifert Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting SRM References: <199810231705.KAA13322@eng4.sequent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <199810231705.KAA13322@eng4.sequent.com>; from David Seifert on Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:05:53AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:05:53AM -0700, David Seifert wrote: > > I have alphapc 164sx. > > The trouble is -- it has alphabios , so I can't gat an SRM > > console to get it bootetd by anything more usable ;-) than windows nt. > > I've got some files as fwupdate from ftp.digital.com/bla.bla.bla/firmware/alphapc164sx/v5.2/. > > But Alphabois simply hangs on this upgrade. > > May be someone else there have solved already this problem? > > On the Multia/UDB there is a "Fail Safe Loader" mode. > Set a jumper ("FSL") and power it up and it will boot the > SRM from a floppy. (probably requires a special > format, DEC's ftp site has images and instructions) > Then you are up running SRM. Put a "update" floppy > in and type "BLAST" and it updates the flash PROM. > (Both SRM and (the useless) ARC in the Multia's case.) > Then you restore the original jumper setting. > > I don't know if your machine has this feature, > but it would be worth checking. Ok. I've got mkboot.exe file from ftp://digital.com/, and I've made two floppies under dos -- one from the file with .exe extension, second from the file with .sys extension(there it'w warned me that is have "MOB" header). Than I switched Fail-Safe Boot jummper to Fail-Safe position. After the power-on, the system starts beeping me (. -short beep, space is a pause, - is long beep). . .. ... there it's was trying to boot from the diskette -- the diskette (the result was equial on both diskettes) was inserted and after about 2 seconds pause it starts to beep in the following manner: .. .. - .. .. - upto infinity :-( any suggesions's what's going on and what to try next? I do not want to loose usability of such workstation just installing NT on it :-( ;-) -- vadik likholetov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message