I am trying to upgrade the firmware on my Tru64 5.0 machine.  Had I paid
attention during the initial upgrade, I would have noticed that the
firmware CD that ship(s/ed) with Tru64 5.0 does not even support it.  That
may explain some of the problems that I have been having.
I am unable to boot from floppy.
I have low-level formatted the floppy successfully and ran mkbootfirm
successfully using the commands specified by the readme that came with
mkbootfirm.  The fwupdate.exe is firmware 5.8 {the latest I could find for
the PC164LX}.
>From the console, I ran 'boot dva0'.  It begins to boot and reads the
blocks in and then gives me a boot failure.  No other identifiable
information.
I can only presume that I have done something wrong.  I will be trying
with another floppy or three, but in the meantime, is there something
obvious that I have missed?
Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 20:52:02 NZST