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Date:      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:16:35 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "jalovell@knology.net" <jalovell@knology.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM
Message-ID:  <20041031061635.GB56606@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>
References:  <20041029151909.22865.qmail@webmail3.knology.net>

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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'm not sure you have to update the firmware on a 164LX.  I don't recall
what I did on mine, but I think the ROM might be big enough that it has
both AlphaBIOS and SRM in it.  Did you try switching to SRM in the
AlphaBIOS configuration menus?
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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