Can't downgrade from SRM to AlphaBios on PC164SX ......

From: Thomas Leitner <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:32:21 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

Not quite Digital Unix related but close: We have a PC164SX board currently
running the latest SRM console and we need to go back to AlphaBios. What
we do is this:

- put in the latest AlphaBios Disk
- >>> fwupdate
- The system starts AlphaBios and at a certain point, pops up a message
  like this (not directly in this words, though):

       The system has detected an invalid NVRAM contents and will
       initialize the NVRAM now. Proceed YES/NO.

- We Proceed and the program gets stuck!
- We toggle the power and SRM is started again.

So: We're currently stuck. We've also tried an older AlphaBios disk
with the same result.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks // Tom

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