Alpha lx164 from Alphabios to SRM

[Wilko Bulte]

I'll have a check when I am back home to see what stuff I do (or do
not) have on the 164LX.

Will take till Sunday or Monday evening, please be patient.

Wilko


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:19:09PM -0000, jalovell at knology.net wrote..
> I know this must have been gone over so many times, but I don't know how to 
> search the mailing list archive to find the answer.  OK I just aquired a 
> 164lx setup and it previously had windows NT so it was running alphabios.  
> Well, I found out what I have to do is get SRM console on, so I read 
> instructions and download the firmware program, renaming it to fwupdate.exe
> 
> I boot the system and go through the update.  The system appears to reboot 
> then goes to a blue screen where it basically tells me i'm missing nt_fw.  
> I hear I'm supposed to have some file like srm_fw.sys, which I cannot find 
> anywhere.  
> 
> OK, try two.  I get this lx164srm.rom file which is ever so praised, stick 
> it on a formatted floppy and do the upgrade procedure.  The Alphabios tells 
> me there is no update found on that floppy.  So, now I'm stuck.  I really 
> want to know how to get the SRM console on my Alpha, but nothing works.
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