Brady Jarvis (bradyj@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 04:28:32 -0400
I had a similar problem...I had to fix the date and time in ARC by going to
the SRM console. My AS200 does not have enough ROM to do both consoles, so I
flashed it to SRM then I had to do the following to get it back to ARC:
get mkboot.exe from ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/utilities
get the appropriate firmware from ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware
in my case this was as200_v6_9.exe
On a DOS or Win9x PC put both files in the same directory and
C:\> mkboot as200_~1.exe a:\fwupdate.exe
at the SRM prompt:
>>>b -fl 0,a0 dva0
This should boot the floppy created with mkboot. Be sure to upgrade to the
ARC console by doing:
>>>update ARC
parts of these instructions were posted to comp.os.linux.alpha by Noah Hester
Thomas Leitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a PC164SX board currently running the latest SRM console
> and we need to go back to AlphaBios. What we do is this:
>
> - put in the latest AlphaBios Disk
> - >>> fwupdate
> - The system starts AlphaBios and at a certain point, pops up a message
> like this (not directly in this words, though):
>
> The system has detected an invalid NVRAM contents and will
> initialize the NVRAM now. Proceed YES/NO.
>
> - We Proceed and the program gets stuck!
> - We toggle the power and SRM is started again.
>
> So: We're currently stuck. We've also tried an older AlphaBios disk
> with the same result.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Thanks // Tom
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