A kind soul at Compaq helped me find this one, but I thought it
worth a summary to the list anyway...
Here's a tip to remember for a little while longer..
If you are trying to install Alpha firmware V5.0 or less, make sure
you set the CPU to fastboot mode BEFORE booting the FW CDROM:
>>>set mode fastboot
>>>init
If you don't, it will hang after displaying one page of text. Guess what
the first thing on the second page of text is...
BEFORE updating the firmware, set environment variable MODE
to FASTBOOT as follows:
>>> SET MODE FASTBOOT
Apparently this little Catch-22 is fixed on the 5.3 CD.
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