Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:54:05 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Joerg Czeranski <jc@joerch.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC Message-ID: <14009.45502.25276.615638@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199902041440.PAA24216@zaphod.in.tu-clausthal.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902041421030.47537-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <199902041440.PAA24216@zaphod.in.tu-clausthal.de>
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Joerg Czeranski writes: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > There is an SRM for the 164LX. I don't think its available in the newer > > firmware releases but I have a copy from around v5.0. There isn't enough > > flash space to have both SRM and AlphaBIOS loaded at the same time, so > > switching is painful. Apart from that it works quite well. > > It's also available in the current firmware release (was an SRM firmware > ever dropped from newer firmware releases?), e.g. on Gatekeeper: > > ftp.digital.com:/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.3/alphapc164lx > The problem is that unless you're already in SRM, the new LFU thing doesn't let you switch into it during the upgrade. The only way I could switch into SRM on a 164lx was to have an srm .ROM file on a floppy for the AlphaBios to read during its upgrade. Maybe I'm missing something & there is a way to switch during the LFU upgrade? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
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