Subject: Re: Will this work
To: Andrew Hobgood <chaos@strange.net>
From: George A. Dowding <dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/07/2001 10:49:24
I have tried it with a grip of different floppies. It finds the .rom
file then says it is loading it. After a short time it responds with
the message "An Error occoured while reading ROM image."
It claims to be AlphaBIOS 5.66.
I guess I will try more disks.
Andrew Hobgood writes:
> > lx164srm.rom and copy it to a floppy keeping the same name? I am a
> > little confused at this point.
>
> just copy the lx164srm.rom, if you're upgrading from something like
> AlphaBIOS 5.62_1 or something close to that.
>
> > Another thing, this is a samsung board. Does that matter?
>
> Mine is a samsung board as well, and I upgraded last week with the
> procedure described.
>
> HTH,
>
> /Andrew
>
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Thanks,
George
dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg