Re: Weirdness with AlphaPC 164: installing SRM firmware, etc.

[Thomas Leitner <tom radar tu-graz ac at>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2027, Bill McCall wrote:

> I am trying to update an lx164 to SRM to run Tru64.  It locks up at
> 'jumping to secondary boot strap' after validating the boot block on
> the cdrom.  I'm suspecting the Diamond GL Pro video card as not being
> a good match to the Elsa Gloria, even though its a Permedia2 based
> card.   What kind of video card to do you have?

Someone in the alpha-osf-managers list had the same problem. The
solution was to "set console graphics" before booting.

Hope this helps // Tom
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