>Subject: Re: (PM) 3 easy steps to cratering your PM3 with b17 (fwd)
>
>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, MegaZone wrote:
>
>> >I tried doing a netboot and using the serial port to upload a new ComOS
>> >with the brand spankin new Troubleshooting Guide instructions, but it gags
>> >on tftp after about 42% or so, no matter which host platform/server
>>
>> Sounds like it could be a bad FLASH - in which case it doesn't matter what
>> the firmware does. Bad FLASH means dead unit. I'd start suspecting that
>
>But when you are netbooting it is loading into ram and not flash. He could
>still hav a bad flash but the com os load stop at 42% sounds more like a
>bad image to me.
>
>> when a netboot fails repeatedly at the same point. But I'd ALSO suspect a
>> bad netboot image. I'd try it by re-FTPing the image from the server,
>
>Right, that would be my deduction.
Not so though, the RMA'd replacement unit took GENERIC.PM3 just fine, so
the image was intact.
Chris
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