Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:15:36 +0400 From: vadik likholetov <vadik@sensi.spb.su> To: David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting SRM Message-ID: <19981023221536.A803@sensi.spb.su> In-Reply-To: <199810231705.KAA13322@eng4.sequent.com>; from David Seifert on Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 10:05:53AM -0700 References: <199810231705.KAA13322@eng4.sequent.com>
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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 <censored> 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
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