From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 4 23:25:58 2003 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 359CF37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.netbeat.de (mail.netbeat.de [62.208.140.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4FB743FA3 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:25:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivleh1@salatschuessel.net) Received: (qmail 11162 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2003 07:26:49 -0000 Received: from p5084ba4b.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO dill.salatschuessel.net) (80.132.186.75) by mail.netbeat.de with SMTP; 5 Mar 2003 07:26:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 68834 invoked by uid 89); 5 Mar 2003 07:25:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20030305072528.68833.qmail@dill.salatschuessel.net> References: <3E629444.3040004@bellatlantic.net> <20030305070629.GD92645@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030305070629.GD92645@dragon.nuxi.com> From: lehmann@ans-netz.de To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: bob smith Subject: Re: SRM Firmware upgrade queston, 164LX driving me nuts. Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 08:25:28 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David O'Brien writes: >> Going thru the archives I have kept since 2000, I see a lot of refs to >> 164 SRM one ref to 164LX alphabios problem, but no reporrt of success >> getting the puppy over to srm. > > It can be done -- I did it about 1 1/2 ago. IIRC the obvious place to > download the SRM bits from had directions that either didn't work or > didn't make sense (I don't recall). I either found another directory in > the firmware collection that gave better directions; or I used the > pervious firmware collection that had other directions. If i recall it correctly, you have to load the .rom file within the AlphaBIOS's Update firmware thingie. And not the fwupdate.exe. If you do the update with the exe, it boot once srm, and after the reboot you have your AlphaBIOS back. I updated 2 machines yet.. and every 2 updates (1/2 year between the BIOS changes) i run into trouble with that update thing. But it should work like i described. If not.. maybe you have to update your SRM after your first boot from AlphaBIOS to srm within SRM. How to do so is described in the SRM manual iirc. But as David wrote.. it can be done. I did it for 2 164LX, one in Apr 2001, and one in Nov 2001. Greetings, Oliver -- Oliver Lehmann @home: lehmann@ans-netz.de @office: oliver.lehmann@mgi.de @www: http://www.pofo.de/ | http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message