[parisc-linux] Re: Upgrading 715/100 Firmware

[Bill Ferguson]

At 10:45 AM 1/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>"scratch disk" means the whole *disk*. PDC loader doesn't know anything
>about partitions.  ie if /dev/sda is "scratch", then use
>         dd if=c7x50016.frm of=/dev/sda bs=2k


Okay..so a disk with no partitions at all?  Correct?

The term "scratch" has a different meaning to me from a different OS, as in 
a spare tape or drive that is formated but not used.

I'll try it with unpartitioned?  or just one partition?


>(Note: bs parameter doesn't do anything since the disk is 512 sectors
>no matter what we specify....just a good reminder in case we use different
>media)
>
> > I've tried booting from bootp, cdrom, tape, and now scratch disk and I
> > can't get the LIF image to work.
>
>*sigh*. bootp, tape, and disk definitely work - I've done all three.
>Are you *sure* it's a LIF image you are playing with?
>"lifls C7X50016.frm" under HPUX will display the LIF contents.
>
>Can you compare md5sum output?
>         grundler <511>md5sum *.frm
>         4d7dc913c507eda18c34e8af29352086  C7X50016.frm
>
>(This is from ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/715/C7X50016.frm)
>
>grant


MD5SUM matches exactly.   I think the problem is the partitions.  I'll get 
rid of that and try again.