Ok Now What... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 9 Nov 1996 21:58:56 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Mark Steil shaped the electrons to say...
>Available upgrade list:
> 1 pm3_3.3.2.c1
>Please select the number of the upgrade to apply: 1
>Please enter the PortMaster name: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>Please enter the PortMaster Password:
>Attempting to connect to PortMaster XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>Connection established to PortMaster, ComOS 3.3.1
>Initializing File System
>Downloading 309822 bytes to PortMaster
>................................................
>Error reading upgrade op code 0
>Upgrade Aborted
>
>pminstall -v
>./Linux/pm_install Version 3.3.1
>
>Any Ideas besides don't reboot and calling Tech Support Monday?

You can try again. You are writing to FLASH, the PM runs from RAM. So
you can try to reapply it.

Another option, which is probably what TS is going to say. Is to wipe
the FLASH and load to a clear FLASH. But the normal procedure is a
'set register 0xffff 0x0f63' That will wip config too.

Now, this IS the best way. But there is another gimmick to try:

'set register 0xffff 0x0100'
'set register 0xffff 0x0101'
'set register 0xffff 0x0103'

That blows the 3 ComOS FLASH chips clear. This may not work well, but
it would keep the settings if it does.

Note, a pmreadconf from 3.3.1 is no good in 3.3.2 or higher - the config
is different.

If you do 'set register 0xffff 0x0f63' and do an upgrade, but DO NOT
reboot, you can connect and do 'save all' and that *should* retain all of
your configs.

The danger to these is that if the system panics a reboots, it is netboot
time.

-MZ

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