From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 14 20:48:33 2002 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 3D8EE37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgr5.xmission.com (mgr5.xmission.com [198.60.22.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC79C43EB1 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr5.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 181IfF-00026N-05 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:46:38 -0600 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr5.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 181IeA-0001f1-05; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:45:31 -0600 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9F3jPC97773; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:15:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:15:25 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Josh Tolbert Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem Message-ID: <20021015131525.A97731@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20021014215719.C34046-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021014215719.C34046-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>; from hemi@scoundrelz.net on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:12:34PM -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.42 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > I obtained a PC164 motherboard, a 500MHz 21164 Alpha, 128M RAM and > various other bits (including a dead CPU fan; I just re-pinned an Intel > heatsink fan to work on the DEC motherboard) to use as a FreeBSD machine. > Unfortunately, I'm not able to get FreeBSD installed because I'm having > problems with the SRM firmware update. I know this is semi-off-topic for > this list, but I've looked around and can't find a description of a > similar problem anywhere. Hopefully someone on the list can point me in > the right direction. > When I received the board, it had ARC firmware in the ROM. Since > that won't do for FreeBSD, I downloaded the SRM firmware and followed the > documented procedure to flash the SRM firmware (put fwupdate.exe and > pc164srm.rom on a floppy, update firmware from the ARC console and just > follow the prompts). After rebooting, I get the standard blue screen with > a black border, a blinking white cursor and nothing else. I don't see the > customary SRM ">>>" prompt or a prompt of any sort. I've tried pressing > enter (and other keys) as suggested, to no avail. I've had a really similar problem with a PC164 LX. I haven't even gotten as far as you have yet unfortunately :(. Do get the serial console set up, it can be helpful if SRM has been set up to talk to it :). One of the two boxes I was looking at definitely had SRM set up to go to the first serial port. The other is still stuck in ARC as we speak, but I have a few more things to try before I completely give up :). The only other thing I can recommend is that a number of people have found that there are problems going directly to the latest version of the firmware. If you have an older version of SRM then give that a try. -- 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