Briefly, my question was:
We have an Alphaserver 1000 currently running DU 3.0b. I'd like to upgrade
the firmware. What about the SROM? Do we need to upgrade that as well?
Thanks to Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, tpb_at_zk3.dec.com, who replied:
>If you needed to replace the SROM, it would be a hardware part swap. It's
>probably just fine. The SROM does things like power-up selftest and
>loading in the console firmware.
>Just update the SRM console, and also update the operating system. As far
>as I know there are no specific requirements that you do these in a special
>order for your particular platform, but you are so far out of date that if
>you are going to reinstall from a media kit, you might as well update the
>firmware first and then re-install the OS.
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Kai Lanz kai_at_pangea.stanford.edu
Received on Fri May 31 1996 - 23:54:42 NZST