From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jun 27 12:41: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from osbie.layer8.net (osbie.layer8.net [166.88.69.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B956714CCF for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from black@osbie.layer8.net) Received: (qmail 211 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Jun 1999 19:41:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:41:00 -0700 From: Ben Black To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM? Message-ID: <19990627124100.F97236@layer8.net> References: <19990627115015.D97236@layer8.net> <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com> <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 03:15:42PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It worked! Thanks so much! On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 03:15:42PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 -- --b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message