Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:15:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Ben Black <black@layer8.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164SX conversion to SRM? Message-ID: <14198.30029.273660.336400@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <19990627115015.D97236@layer8.net> <199906271858.LAA05132@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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