Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:48:47 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Ben Black <black@layer8.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM? Message-ID: <19990627194847.637ED82@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:15:42 -0400." <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Mike Smith writes:
> > > I got no response when asking this before, so I'll add in a bit more dat
a
> > > and see if anyone can help out.
> > >
> > > Having failed completely to update the firmware through the AlphaBIOS GU
I,
> > > 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
I'm rather confused about the whole thing. Is this for initial bootstrap
to SRM? Or is this required for everything?
What are the V5.4 sx164_5_4.sys and sx164_5_4.exe and fwupdate.exe in
the alphapc164sx directory on ftp.digital.com then? They are 900K+ each.
Or do you use the new fwupdate.exe *and* the old sx164srm.rom file for
initial bootstrap?
Cheers,
-Peter
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