Re: Booting an Alpha 164SX
Grab a copy of the 5.66 BIOS from gatekeeper.dec.com. This fixed all these
type of problems for me. Also realize that the BIOS will *tell* you that
the boot selection is invalid when you enter it, but it doesn't matter, you
can still boot it anyway.
On 22 Oct 1998, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, I just bought an Alpha 164SX/21164/533MHz/128MB RAM with an
> Adaptec AHA-2940 UW. I tried to boot it, but couldn't get past the
> BIOS.
>
> The BIOS is an AlphaBIOS Version 5.62-1 970926.1141. It seems to be a
> bit different from the one in the README. It asks me:
>
> Boot Name: ______________
> Boot File: ______________ ________________
> OS Path: ______________ ________________
> OS Options: _______________________________
>
> The first part of Boot File and OS Path are selected from a menu. For
> OS Path, I couldn't select the diskette. Also, I couldn't select
> partitons < 50 MB, because the clever BIOS knows I couldn't install NT
> on them. Then I tried all kinds of combinations with putting the
> rescue disc on a FAT partition etc. but always got "Bad image file
> type".
>
> Can anybody help me and tell me which files to put where and what text
> to enter in the BIOS? And what boot disk set and kernel would be
> suitable? Or are there newer BIOSes available? I wouldn't love wasting
> 50 MB for a boot partition.
>
> Bye,
> Falk
>
>
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