Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:58:39 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: Josh Tolbert <hemi@scoundrelz.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem Message-ID: <20021015085839.A31434@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021015131525.A97731@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:15:25PM %2B0930 References: <20021014215719.C34046-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> <20021015131525.A97731@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:15:25PM +0930, Greg Lewis wrote: > 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. The oldest FW CD I have that has the AlphaPC164 contains SRM 4.8 If anybody wants to try that I could make the f/w image available. Wilko [historians beware, the very oldest FW CD I own is a from 1993 ;-) ] -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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