28 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-alphaRe: alpha PC| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Don | Feb 4, 1999 4:32 am | |
| Adauto Souza | Feb 4, 1999 4:39 am | |
| Andrew Gallatin | Feb 4, 1999 6:09 am | |
| Doug Rabson | Feb 4, 1999 6:22 am | |
| Joerg Czeranski | Feb 4, 1999 6:40 am | |
| Andrew Gallatin | Feb 4, 1999 6:53 am | |
| Scot Elliott | Feb 4, 1999 6:56 am | |
| Stuart Krivis | Feb 4, 1999 7:28 am | |
| Martin Heller | Feb 4, 1999 8:19 am | |
| Todd Vierling | Feb 4, 1999 8:26 am | |
| Ted Spradley | Feb 4, 1999 8:33 am | |
| Stuart Krivis | Feb 4, 1999 8:42 am | |
| Ted Spradley | Feb 4, 1999 8:47 am | |
| Matthew Jacob | Feb 4, 1999 9:41 am | |
| Don | Feb 4, 1999 7:26 pm | |
| Don | Feb 4, 1999 7:46 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Feb 4, 1999 7:54 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Feb 4, 1999 8:08 pm | |
| Jason Thorpe | Feb 4, 1999 8:42 pm | |
| Jason Thorpe | Feb 4, 1999 8:48 pm | |
| Peter Wemm | Feb 4, 1999 10:01 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 5, 1999 2:09 am | |
| Scot Elliott | Feb 5, 1999 2:51 am | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 5, 1999 1:35 pm | |
| Don | Feb 5, 1999 1:45 pm | |
| John Birrell | Feb 5, 1999 1:56 pm | |
| Don | Feb 5, 1999 4:50 pm | |
| Doug Rabson | Feb 9, 1999 11:59 am |
| Subject: | Re: alpha PC | |
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| From: | Scot Elliott (sc...@london.virgin.net) | |
| Date: | Feb 4, 1999 6:56:30 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-alpha | |
Yeah... it took me ages before I could get those working though... the AlphaBIOS doesn't seem to like the files in that directory. You do need to get the older .rom file and flash that with fwupdate.exe.
Once you've got SRM on the machine, you can upgrade to the newer release by booting from a floppy which was made from burning the .exe file in the alphapc164sx/lx directory with the mkboot.exe tool in pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/utilities.
Does anyone know if it's possible to flash the newer firmware file directly from AlphaBIOS? DEC's documentation seems a bit lacking here.
On a similar note, DEC Unix 4.0d won't install on a 164SX - is it supposed to?
Scot.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Joerg Czeranski wrote:
Doug Rabson wrote:
There is an SRM for the 164LX. I don't think its available in the newer firmware releases but I have a copy from around v5.0. There isn't enough flash space to have both SRM and AlphaBIOS loaded at the same time, so switching is painful. Apart from that it works quite well.
It's also available in the current firmware release (was an SRM firmware ever dropped from newer firmware releases?), e.g. on Gatekeeper:
ftp.digital.com:/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.3/alphapc164lx
joerch
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