Re: (PM) PM3 upgrade Failure
Joe Benson (joe@millcreek.net)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 07:27:21 -0700 (MST)
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>
> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Joe Benson wrote:
>
> > I tried to upgrade one of our PM3's to comos 3.7.2 with Pmconsole and
> > got an upgrade failure. I tried to upgrade from the command line with
> > tftp and got a write error. I reformatted the flash with erase comos and
> > it succeded. I then tried to tftp again and got the following results.
>
> The tftp commands aren't supported in ComOS yet (no idea why they're even
> included). They may work to some degree but aren't offically supported
> and working yet.
>
> > fl_rawwrite: Offset 264704, length 256, 3/0/4608
> > fl_rawwrite: Offset 264960, length 256, 3/0/4864
> > fl_rawwrite: Offset 265216, length 256, 3/0/5120
> > fl_rawflush: 0/0/16 nc=0, np=1, len=65024
> > fl_rawflush: 0/1/16 nc=1, np=0, len=65024
> > fl_rawflush: 1/0/16 nc=1, np=1, len=65024
> > fl_rawflush: 1/1/16 nc=3, np=0, len=65024
> > fl_rawflush: 3/0/16 nc=0, np=0, len=5376
> > Write Error
> > tftp terminated - unknown internal flash error
> > tftp error on read
> > WARNING: Flash copy of Operating System has been erased.
> > Rebooting from Flash will fail unless a valid
> > Operating System is loaded.
> > pmd> SYSMSG947
> >
> > I reloaded comos 3.7.1 and it went OK. We are back to and running but
> > cannot upgrade to 3.7.2. The image file is ok it worked on our other 4
> > PM3s.
>
> Try to upgrade it with PMconsole - if that doesn't work go in and "erase
> comos" and do it again and it should work. Don't use TFTP right now.
Allready tried to use Pmconsole, it failed. That is why I tried to tftp.
Erase comos worked, didn't report any errors, but the system fails when
I try to load 3.7.2. from Pmconsole or tftp. The image file is about 2K
bigger, maybe there is a bad area in that 2k section.
>
>
> - Steve
> - Systems Manager
> - Community Internet Access, Inc.
> - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico
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