Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:41:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ben Black <black@layer8.net> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM? Message-ID: <199906271941.MAA05466@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:41:00 PDT." <19990627124100.F97236@layer8.net>
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> It worked! Thanks so much! Cool. For future reference, I've been collecting a few sets of firmware update tools at http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/alpha. At the moment I only have LX and SX sets; any that other people might have would be appreciated. > On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 03:15:42PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Mike Smith writes: > > > > I got no response when asking this before, so I'll add in a bit more data > > > > and see if anyone can help out. > > > > > > > > Having failed completely to update the firmware through the AlphaBIOS GUI, > > > > I switched to the fail-safe boot. The output is as follows: > > > > > > You can't do it any other way. You need to find one of the old-style > > > "fwupdate.exe" files (the large ones) and an SRM ROM image that will > > > both fit on a floppy. > > > > > > > Hint: you can get the srm image at > > ftp://ftp.decsy.ru/alpha/FirmWare/164SX/SRM-T4.9/sx164srm.rom > > > > Try to find a later fwupdate.exe (the one at that site gave us > > problems when attempting to update the 164sx at USENIX). I've left > > the one we used at USENIX at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/fwupdate.exe > > > > Drew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > -- > --b > -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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