Thanks goes out to the following for responding and give me extra insight
and help.
Sean O' Connell
Pavel Turcaj
John Losey
The problem.
For some reason, the firmware upgrade would changed its mind about what I
had console set to. I plugged in a dumb terminal to its serial port, but
left the console setting to "graphics". Even though the console setting was
"graphics" the second have of the upgrade went to the serial port instead,
so I had to type "update" instead of just selecting it from the menus. Now
the firmware update worked.
Not really sure why the update decided to go to serial, but it works now.
Thanks for the help.
-grant
--original message---
I just got a hold of an older Alpha 200 4/233 machine. I am planning on
putting 4.0f on it and am trying to update the firmware. I've done this a
few times on other machines, but this one is working nicely.
I boot to the firmware cdrom(v5.4) and it ask me to select the boot file,
I just leave it at its default, since it looks correct.
It then proceeds to reboot and says its booting of the new firmware(7.0),
but then stops at the jumping to bootstrap code. I am confused as to why it
stops here. console IS set to graphics, not serial, which I've seen cause
similar problems.
I know its not my CDROM, because I tried a floppy firmware update as well.
I did see that last email on this"subject: weird firware ..." I tried
switching the keyboard, but that didn't help.
Any ideas?
-grant'
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Grant Schoep, grant_at_storm.com
System/Network Administrator
L3 Communications Telemetry & Instrumentation
San Jose,CA
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 23:32:46 NZST