> In a long, sweaty, and arduous battle yesterday to get this 500a to run
> SRM, I managed to cook the bios:  corrupt FlashROM.  All giggles aside,
> I noticed this interesting bit from the technical manual:
> 
> "When the system is powered on, the POST code, sensing the flashROM
> corruption, will attempt to load from the floppy drive."
> 
> Now, the fact is that the machine _does_ click through the tracks; a FAT
> fwupdate.exe disk doesn't help, nor does a mkboot.exe'd fwupdate.exe
> disk.  Any gurus on this list know what format the machine looks for?
> My thoughts are that it's a mkbootarc'd *.cmp file, but I'll be damned
> if I could find that for the Miata.

On a related note, can the same thing (whatever it is) be done for a
Multia?  I know of a multia with a toasted flash that we'd like to get
fixed.  If this won't do it, does anyone have any suggestions?

-allen