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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:47:47 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "jalovell@knology.net" <jalovell@knology.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM
Message-ID:  <20041029154747.GB513@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>
References:  <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>

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I'll have a check when I am back home to see what stuff I do (or do
not) have on the 164LX.

Will take till Sunday or Monday evening, please be patient.

Wilko


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:19:09PM -0000, jalovell@knology.net wrote..
> 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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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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