>Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:21:13 +1000
> port-alpha@netbsd.org Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au> Corrupted SRM
>Dear NetBSD/alpha:
>
>I've acquired a used Alpha Station 200 4/166 which came with DU 3.2 on its
>disk (for which I don't have the log on details), but without any
>documentation.
>
>At power on it printed a sequence of letters and numbers before the SRM >>>
>prompt, and when I typed 'b' it booted into DU.  Using any other command
>produced the response "Console is secure. Please log in."  I didn't know
>how to, so I resorted to open circuiting the button battery on the
>motherboard for a minute.  (Is there another way to get out of the secure
>mode?)
>
>Unfortunately, I decided to upgrade the firmware.  I used
>
> http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/v6.0/alpha200/as200_v7_0.
>exe
>
>which I wrote to a DAT tape using
>
>    mkbootfirm as200_v7_0.exe | dd of=/dev/nrmt0h bs=512
>
>then I then booted from it, and ran the update utility as shown in the
>listing at the end of this message.  There didn't appear to be a problem
>until I cycled power to the machine, but then the never-ending listing of
>registry contents (?) and errors began.
>
>Is it possible to recover from this situation?
>
Do you have a floppy drive with this machine. Generally there will
be a jumper setting for "failsafe boot from floppy" for just this
situtation.
Unfortunately I don't have this type of machine so can't tell you
what jumper it is.
Charles

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