> On Sep 08, Christopher C. Chimelis scratched in indelible ink : > My first thought would be to have a look at the MILO-HOWTO in the System > Specific section > (http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/milo-5.html#ss5.6). Perhaps you boot SRM > or ARC from a boot block floppy and restore the system to SRM/ARC after > getting one of the consoles to boot. > this is how I re-flashed mine recently when it went off and trashed itself. there should be a jumper on the motherboard which says "boot off floppy" or similar.
the following creates an srm bootable floppy, but I found that my system also boots with the jumper set as above. I do not know if this works on any other boards though. HTH. found at: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/ Bootable Floppy C - Boot Floppy (Digital UNIX systems) 1. From the table below, download the appropriate firmware update image from the alpha255 directory in the V5.7 CD area Rename the downloaded file to fwupdate.exe. 2. Download the file mkbootfirm.tar from the utilities directory in the top level of the firmware area. You can untar mkbootfirm on a Digital UNIX system with the command: tar xvf mkbootfirm.tar found at: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/utilities/mkbootfirm.tar 3. Make sure you have a floppy that has been low-level formatted. For example, to low-level format a floppy in drive zero: fddisk -fmt /dev/rfd0a 4. Run mkbootfirm on the .exe firmware image that you downloaded. mkbootfirm uses a .exe firmware image to create a file that can be dd'd to a floppy. Enter the following command to create a bootable floppy from a downloaded .exe firmware image: ./mkbootfirm fwupdate.exe | dd of=/dev/rfd0c bs=64k NOTE: This assumes the mkbootfirm executable is in the current directory and that the floppy is in drive zero. 5. Insert the floppy on the target system and boot it from the SRM console: P00>>> boot dva0 For more detailed instructions, please refer to the release notes. -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy Words are fingers that point at the moon. Once you see the moon, you no longer need the fingers. -- someone, somewhere -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
