From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 06:16:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4865316A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:16:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075AA43D3F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:16:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9V6Gas6021581; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9V6GZ21021426; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:16:35 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "jalovell@knology.net" Message-ID: <20041031061635.GB56606@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 06:16:37 -0000 On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:19:09PM -0000, jalovell@knology.net wrote: > I know this must have been gone over so many times, but I don't know how to > search the mailing list archive to find the answer. OK I just aquired a > 164lx setup and it previously had windows NT so it was running alphabios. > Well, I found out what I have to do is get SRM console on, so I read > instructions and download the firmware program, renaming it to fwupdate.exe I'm not sure you have to update the firmware on a 164LX. I don't recall what I did on mine, but I think the ROM might be big enough that it has both AlphaBIOS and SRM in it. Did you try switching to SRM in the AlphaBIOS configuration menus? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)