Date: 29 Oct 2004 15:19:09 -0000 From: "jalovell@knology.net" <jalovell@knology.net> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM Message-ID: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>
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I know this must have been gone over so many times, but I don't know how to search the mailing list archive to find the answer. OK I just aquired a 164lx setup and it previously had windows NT so it was running alphabios. Well, I found out what I have to do is get SRM console on, so I read instructions and download the firmware program, renaming it to fwupdate.exe I boot the system and go through the update. The system appears to reboot then goes to a blue screen where it basically tells me i'm missing nt_fw. I hear I'm supposed to have some file like srm_fw.sys, which I cannot find anywhere. OK, try two. I get this lx164srm.rom file which is ever so praised, stick it on a formatted floppy and do the upgrade procedure. The Alphabios tells me there is no update found on that floppy. So, now I'm stuck. I really want to know how to get the SRM console on my Alpha, but nothing works.
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