Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:00:02 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: SRM on a PC 164LX Message-ID: <20021012010001.A80476@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Hi all, I'm trying to help a friend run FreeBSD on a PC 164LX Alpha. We have FreeBSD running happily here on a DS10 and he's got Linux running at home on a BX/UX "Ruffian", so we have some idea of what we're doing :). The problem with the LX is that it currently has ARC installed and we're having trouble replacing that with SRM. One of the interesting things is that most of the documentation I've found mentions this board should have come with AlphaBIOS and doesn't really deal with ARC at all. The version of ARC on the machine is 4.49-2 if that helps. Anyway, I've downloaded the SRM 5.8 images from Compaq and tried to get them installed, but to no avail. The main things I've tried are: 1. fwupdate.exe on a FAT (DOS) formatted floppy using the "Install new firmware" menu item from the supplementary menu of ARC. The machine accesses the floppy for a while and then stops, with the console just remaining a blank blue. 2. Same setup (fwupdate.exe on DOS floppy) but setting the fail safe jumper. I get the correct beep sequence and the floppy drive is accessed but then nothing, the machine just sits there unresponsive with a blank screen. 3. The actual ROM image (lx164srm.rom) on a DOS floppy. This produces an error from the "Install new firmware" menu option. Now, the documentation for the fail safe booting indicates I should make the floppy with "makeboot" rather than just put the fwupdate.exe on the floppy. However, I don't have access to a machine to do this. Maybe someone can tell me what that program does different and if I can reproduce what it does with dd somehow or maybe with the -B flag of newfs_msdos? Any clues appreciated :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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