Subject: Re: BIOS boot floppy
To: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/17/1999 00:30:26
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:08:22PM -0800, David Hopper wrote:
> Found it. It's an SRM boot disk (mkboot fwupdate.exe), ARC 5.69 right from
> the website at ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/alphant/abpw433v569.zip.
> (Dunno why this didn't work with the ARC 5.70 firmware update...) File this
> away for anyone else that manages to fry a Miata.
>
> As far as the Multia goes, it would have to buzz the floppy in distress. Get
> mkboot from ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/utilities, and try
> an fwupdate.exe for the platform at
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/.
>
> Back to square one. My thoughts are that DEC removed the SRM-switch
No, I have 7.0 on my PWS433a and that had me select SRM just fine.
> capability from the 500a ARC setup menu as of the earliest firware update I've
> got, 5.3. Is there a source for deprecated firmware, one that will allow me
> to select SRM on this thing?
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