Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem

Hi guys,
        I *finally* managed to get a serial console to work. For some odd
reason my ThinkPad 600 refused to work, but my trusty dual PII/400 FreeBSD
box never fails...

 Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7
 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation
 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation

 Digital Semiconductor
 A Digital Equipment Corporation business
 September 1996

 Boot menu:
 Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter.

     1. Boot Windows NT Server Version 4.00
     2. Boot an alternate operating system...
     3. Run a program...
     4. Supplementary menu...

Enter your selection: 4
 Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7
 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation
 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation

 Digital Semiconductor
 A Digital Equipment Corporation business
 September 1996

 Supplementary menu:
 Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter.

     1. Install new firmware...
     2. Install Windows NT from CD-ROM
     3. Set up the system...
     4. Display hardware configuration
     5. Boot menu...

Enter your selection: 1
Searching for the update tool on CD-ROM and floppy...
Timeout on keyboard controller or keyboard initialization.
All I/O is going to serial port #1.

 Initializing firmware update.

...........DSDN No mouse detected.

 Initializing device drivers:  ATAPI ...OK.

 Initializing Flash Driver: Intel 28F008SA
 Firmware Update menu:
 Firmware Update menu:

     1. Update Firmware
     3. Restart the system

     N - Next menu (if any)...
     P - Previous menu (if any)...

Enter your selection: 1
 Locating Image: multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom
 Loading multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom...done
 Checking Image...OK

Really update flash with 'multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom'?
     1. Yes
     2. No

Enter your selection: 1
 Flashing image at offset 0x10000


 Writing Flash Block: 1W 2W 3W 4W 5W 6W 7W 8W 9W
 Verifying Flash Block: 1V 2V 3V 4V 5V 6V 7V 8V 9V
Console selection does not match flashed image.  Console selection:
Windows NT  New Firmware:      OpenVMSUpdate console sele?
     1. Yes
     2. No

Enter your selection: 1
 Console selection set to OpenVMS

 Flash Update Complete.
 Press any key to continue...
 Firmware Update menu:
 Firmware Update menu:

     1. Update Firmware
     3. Restart the system

     N - Next menu (if any)...
     P - Previous menu (if any)...

Enter your selection: 3
 Restarting the system

 Image found at 10000
 Image base in flash is 80300000
 Jumping to new image at 300000...
 Address = 00300000
 Memory Size = 08000000
 Clock Cycle Period = 000007d0
 System Revision = decb0001
 Active Processors = 00000001
 System Context Value = 00000000
*** keyboard not plugged in...
ff.fe.fd.fc.fb.fa.f9.f8.f7.f6.f5.f3.f2.f1.f0.
ef.b0.b1.b2.b3.ee.ed.ec.f4.eb.ea.e9.e8.e7.

Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz Console V5.5-1, Jul 14 1999 12:37:45
>>>set console graphics
>>>init

It worked!

>>>show config
                        Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz

SRM Console:    V5.5-1
PALcode:        OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-9, Digital UNIX PALcode V1.23-8

SROM Revision: UNKNOWN
Alpha 21164A-2
DECchip (tm) 21172 CIA ASIC Pass 3

        Thank you guys for being patient with me. :)
        Now, does anyone know where I can find cheap RAM for this thing?
128M will do for now, but I'm going to want more.

Thanks,
Josh

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Greg Lewis wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > Hi Bernd,
> >     I haven't successfully made a serial connection to the Alpha. I'm
> > going to continue working with the Alpha tonight, and now I have the
> > settings that Wilko provided, but I'm not familiar with serial consoles at
> > all. I guess I'm going to use Kermit, but I'm not sure if I need to make
> > Kermit "listen" or "connect" or other things of the sort.
>
> I've successfully used minicom to do this.  My minicom setup (assuming the
> first serial port looks like this:
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/minicom/minirc.cuaa0
> # Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters.
> pr port             /dev/cuaa0
> pu baudrate         9600
> pu bits             8
> pu parity           N
> pu stopbits         1
>
> Minicom is in ports (comms/minicom).
>
> --
> Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
> Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>



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