From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jun 27 12:15:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D276150D2 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA18189; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:15:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA24837; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:15:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:15:42 -0400 (EDT) To: Mike Smith Cc: Ben Black , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM? In-Reply-To: <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <19990627115015.D97236@layer8.net> <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith writes: > > I got no response when asking this before, so I'll add in a bit more data > > and see if anyone can help out. > > > > Having failed completely to update the firmware through the AlphaBIOS GUI, > > I switched to the fail-safe boot. The output is as follows: > > You can't do it any other way. You need to find one of the old-style > "fwupdate.exe" files (the large ones) and an SRM ROM image that will > both fit on a floppy. > Hint: you can get the srm image at ftp://ftp.decsy.ru/alpha/FirmWare/164SX/SRM-T4.9/sx164srm.rom Try to find a later fwupdate.exe (the one at that site gave us problems when attempting to update the 164sx at USENIX). I've left the one we used at USENIX at http://www.freebsd.org/~gallatin/fwupdate.exe Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message