Re: PM2 upgrade failed! desperate!!!

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 02:27:50 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Robert M. Zachok shaped the electrons to say...
>I then attempted to netboot a generic PM2 image, which was successful until
>ComOS started. Then I saw a message:
>Invalid length for flash 0/0 - 65535
>I'm suspecting that the flash has died. I tried to reformat using

Don't jump to that conclusion yet.

>set register 0xffff 0x0102, but the command returned in just a few seconds,
>rather than the 90 seconds the netboot instructions indicated.

Wrong command. You only erased the config with that, which is a different
chip that 0 (2 to be exact).

'set register 0xffff 0x0f63'

-MZ

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