From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 21 10:37:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14676 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14671 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00830; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810211740.KAA00830@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mark thompson cc: tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alphastation 200 In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Oct 1998 14:36:22 -0000." <19981021143622.1986.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:40:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Ah. I went to ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware. The neweset > version they have there is 6.8. It looks like to make a bootable update > floppy, you have to be able to run 'mkbootfirm', which is a DEC Unix > executeable... If only somebody would mail me the disk image of the > update diskette... I had some interesting adventures with an AS200 and firmware upgrades. The first thing to bear in mind is that the AS200 typically only has *one* flash prom onboard. If you install the ARC firmware, you'll be left with an ARC-only system (and getting back from there is not supported, although it is possible). I used bootp/tftpboot to perform the firmware upgrade; I don't actually recall whether it was the .sys or .exe file that you want to boot, but it's easy enough to try both of them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message