From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 14 23:58:54 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 BA58537B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ACD643E77 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9F6weFu031494; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:58:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9F6wdD4031493; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:58:39 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Greg Lewis Cc: Josh Tolbert , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem Message-ID: <20021015085839.A31434@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20021014215719.C34046-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> <20021015131525.A97731@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021015131525.A97731@misty.eyesbeyond.com>; from glewis@eyesbeyond.com on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:15:25PM +0930 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 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