ALIX.2D13 Bios upgrade

[scopa]

Hello - apologies in advance if topic already posted - but searched and did not find the answer

As per Pfsense pre-install instructions I should upgrade the bios of this Alix board to 99h I have used dd to setup image on CF card but when I run sb.com it fails

Can anyone provide any insight?

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PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m                                                                   
640 KB Base Memory                                                                         
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 044A CF 4GB                                                                   
Phys C/H/S 7785/16/63 Log C/H/S 973/128/63                                                 
FreeDOS kernel build 2036 cvs [version Aug 18 2006 compiled Aug 18 2006]…................123
Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - 80386 CPU required - FAT32 support

(C) Copyright 1995-2006 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project.                       
All Rights Reserved. This is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO                   
WARRANTY; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
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either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

• InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 06: with calculated values    3-113-49 instead of    1-242-49
  C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS=    0-1-1, start=    0 MB, size=    15 MB
  FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [Aug 25 2006] 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom ehlert
  HIMEM - Always On A20 method used
  Kernel: allocated 43 Diskbuffers = 22876 Bytes in HMA

FreeCom version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006 00:29:00]
C:>sb.com
ALIX flash update (C)2007 PC Engines GmbH
Flash ID = 1 0000 GPI = 00
Flash ID = 0 5BBF GPI = 01- FAIL !

[jasonlitka]

m is newer than h.

[scopa]

oh man. I am an idiot. Sorry for being so stupid

Can I ask you next step - I have now copied the image of pfsense to the CF card. What is the method to access Pfsense from the alix board? Still use serial? Or connect another way?

Thanks,

[scopa]

I was using the wrong image. All set.

[dotdash]

From what I read on the pcengines site, you should be using m if you have a newer board, if you flash it to h, you will not be able to save settings in the setup.