Manual Updates; Updating From The Cd-Rom - Compaq ES40CSLP Installation, User & Service Manual

3.10.3 Manual Updates

If RMC firmware or serial ROM (SROM) ever become corrupted, you can perform a manual
update as follows:
1. Boot the update medium.
2. At the UPD> prompt, enter the exit command and answer y at the prompt:
UPD> exit
Do you want to do a manual update [y/(n)] y
AlphaServer ES40 Console V5.4-5528, built on April 6, 1999 at
05:02:30
3. To update RMC firmware, enter update rmc. To update serial ROM (SROM), enter
update srom. For example:
UPD> update srom
The remainder of the display is similar to that shown in Example 3-14.

3.10.4 Updating from the CD-ROM

You can update the system firmware from CD-ROM.
1. At the SRM console prompt, enter the show device command to determine the drive name
of the CD-ROM drive.
2. Load the Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD into the drive.
3. Boot the system from the CD, using the drive name determined in step 1 (in this case,
dqa0).
P00>>> boot dqa0
4. Enter the update command at the UPD> prompt:
5. When the update is complete, exit from the Firmware Update Utility.
UPD> exit
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