As Soren S. Jorvang wrote...
> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > I finally managed to obtain an earlier SRM console firmware for the Multia.
> > 
> > Unfortunately(??) not the V3.8-2 but V3.7-628. At least that is 
> > what 'strings' tells me. Note that it is a .sys file, I think this means
> > it is intended for network-bashed ROM flashing. It was taken from the
> > Multia V3.0 master CDROM. So, it is a normal released version that people
> > had on their Multias.
> 
> I couldn't get the upgrade to netboot. At least with DECaxp33 firmware, the
> .EXE version seems to needed.

No .exe in sight.

> I just now installed V3.7-628 by chopping off the first 512 bytes, writing
> the file to a FAT12 floppy as SRM.EXE, and running 'blast' at the SRM
> prompt.
> 
> > It can be found on ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/srmV3.7-628.sys.gz
> > 
> > I sincerely hopes this one does bootp correctly, I've given up 
> > on obtaining V3.8-2
> > 
> > Please post any results.
> 
> No success with netbooting here. It does run disk-based like with V3.8-3
> (including the bogus PCI devices).

<censored> That was the best I had to offer right now. I'll keep an open
eye for other versions, but the probability of that happening is approaching 0
I'm afraid.

Wilko
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