From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 10 8:10:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from shark.flips.net (shark.flips.net [208.214.176.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C728D37B407 for <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@sfcei.com) Received: from sf_pdc.schaefer-fagan (host-64-183-103-106.covadbiz.com [64.183.103.106]) by shark.flips.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60222U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id net for <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:33:09 -0400 Received: by sf_pdc with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <313MNSKA>; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:00:24 -0400 Message-ID: <B9FB8C769C17D411892D00B0D021653208EC88@sf_pdc> From: bob@sfcei.com To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie help on firmware update, how? Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:00:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-alpha.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-alpha> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-alpha> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have recently acquired a DEC Alpha 'NoName' mobo with a 166 processor. I have built up a box, but I cannot get the firmware update to properly apply. Upon boot, I can get to the >>> and when I try to apply the firmware update to the SRM console, I get the following : >>>b -fl 0,0 dva0 (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0,0) block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is a valid boot block reading 1735 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.1 bootstrap code read in base = 10e000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = d8e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 100000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code The system goes for a reboot and then nothing else happens after the blue screen comes up. (I do have the blinking cursor, nothing else.) I have tried booting from the latest Alpha FreeBSD cd and I only get the same as above, except I have a block cursor on the line below jumping to bootstrap code, and nothing ever happens after this. I made a couple of firmware update diskettes on a 4.3 FreeBSD x86 machine and none of them seem to work. Do I need to have the firmware update disk made on a Digital Unix system? If so, could someone make one for me? Does anyone have any other thoughts on this? Thanks much Bob Collins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message