Louis came through with the correct answer. I went back and only
updated the SRM and everything is correctly running now.
"Louis F. Rossi" wrote:
>
> Hi Darryl,
>
> I had the same thing happen to me on my 255/233. The key is to
> upgrade only the SRM even though the release notes say to upgrade the
> ARC. If you choose, upgrade ROM which is supposed to do everything for
> you, it only chooses the SRM.
>
> Scary, eh?
>
> Cheers,
> Lou
>
> Darryl Cook wrote:
> >
> > Hello Admins,
> >
> > Need some help on an Alpha 200 workstation. It had 4.d on it and I am
> > trying to upgrade to 4.0f. I have 7 of them. I upgraded the firmware
> > on the first one and all hell broke loose. It tried to come up with
> > Windows NT of all things. I kept messing around reloading the firmware
> > and finally got it to take. Upgraded to 4.0f just fine. Went to the
> > second one and the same thing happened. All I did was boot the firmware
> > cd and update the SRM and ARC. Recycled the power and it tries to boot
> > Windows NT again. It shows the default boot type as Digital Unix but
> > for some reason keeps reverting back to NT. I did notice that the SRM
> > updated to version 7.0 but the ARC says 4.8. Any suggestions on what
> > might be causing this??
> >
> > darryl
>
> --
> "What is essential is invisible to the eye." - St. Exupery
Received on Mon Sep 11 2000 - 19:33:43 NZST