Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:58:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching from arc to srm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004260853120.81953-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C327B@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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If there is co-resident SRM f/w in these machines, there will be an ARC menu entry item (they'll have to hunt for it- I can't remember which submenu it's under) that says something like "Set up for booting Digital Unix after next power cycle". If there isn't, they have to make a DOS floppy (or get the FW cdrom) and put the appropriate for their platform fwupdate.exe and SRM do the 'update f/w' selection. I just did this recently for a PC164 I bought that had only ARC on it. You and they should note that Digital built some machines (I can't remember exactly which ones) that cannot possibly run FreeBSD-alpha (or Tru64 either)- there was, inside the chip, some address lines lasered out. This seemed to be strange for a number of reasons..talk about gelding (cough) the lily.... On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Waite, Michael wrote: > I have been getting many people who are interested in running FreeBSD on > their systems previously running AlphaNT. > They ask me where to they find the info that tells them how to change from > arc to srm. > As these are not "Digital" systems I am not sure how to do it. > Are there places out there that have flash software to get srm running on a > system that does not have both? > > I am just spoiled cause all of our systems have both. > -----Mike > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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