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

[Bill Ferguson]

Now that worked!   My firmware is up to date!

Disk has to "raw" unpartitioned.   Thanks Grant!  I'll now write that FAQ 
for booting firmware I promised!

BTW. I found an old Syquest Ezdrive to use as a scratch disk, works pretty 
well since its scsi.


At 10:45 AM 1/3/2002 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
>Bill Ferguson wrote:
> > I know this has been asked a zillion times but bear with me.  I'm pretty
> > new to Linux, but familar with many other operating systems.
> >
> > I've got debian 0.9.3 installed on a 715/100.  Seems to work pretty well.
> >
> > My question relates to getting the firmware to a "scratch disk"  which
> > Grant speaks of in the archives (in my case sda1 set to type F0).  sdb1,
> > sdb2, sdb3, sdb4 are the disks where the Linux install resides.
>
>"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
>
>(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
>
>
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