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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