Re: PM2 upgrade failed! desperate!!!

dtrucken@zsassociates.com
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:52:42 -0500

Yep, It happened to me too. Before I realized what happened, I called LE
Tech support. They told me the unit was fried and sent a RMA unit. About
an hour later it dawned on my what I did, but it was too late to cancel the
RMA. Oh well. I guess it just contributes to higher costs for every
customer of LE....

There seems to be two fixes, one a different file extension as suggested
below, and two a CHECK SUM check in the pminstall program BEFORE the image
is sent to the PM3. Certainly the checksum of the non-binary image can't
match the checksum of the binary image! If the pminstall program said
something like: "Hey you idiot, you're trying to load an OS with a checksum
that isn't valid." I would have saved lots of time, shipping costs, and
frustration. My Cisco routers do this, and I'm very grateful for it.

(I guess I can chalk it up to newbie hazing.)

Dave

>> During the upgrade process, I received a message indicating an invalid
>> opcode
>> and the upgrade was aborted. At that point the unit was dead, so I
>> rebooted it to no avail.
>This happened to me. I forgot to download it in binary.
Had same problem after downloading from website. No harm done
tho. Downloaded via ftp and everything was fine.
LE could fix this by giving a different file extention!
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Don Lashier dl@newportnet.com
Newport Internet http://www.newportnet.com/