Use a FAT formatted floppy diskette and not a rawwrite copied diskette with the firmware image, then use "update-flash" to have teh f720 copy the firmware into flash.
You can go from any OFW image to any other ofw image you wish, this way.
Rick
-----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bentebba [mailto:stephane.bentebba@fps.fr] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:07 AM To: Geoff Hardin Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: F720 firmware issue
Geoff Hardin wrote:
I have an F720 that was running OnTAP 5.2.x and I upgraded
it to OnTAP
6.1. Unfortunately (and there are a couple of these), I
forgot to update
the motherboard firmware first. Normally not a big deal,
except this F720
happens to be in the Phillipines and I'm in Dallas, a 14 hour time difference.
Luckily enough, the F720 boots up, but it complains that the
firmware is
too old and that I should upgrade to 2.3. The latest
firmware available
is 2.8, but when we tried to update the firmware, we got an
error after
the program started running: The attempt to load a boot
image failed. It
then drops back to the ok prompt and the firmware is not updated.
Does anyone know if I have to first update the firmware to
2.3 and then to
2.8? It's been a long time since I have had to do this
operation, and I
don't think it ever covered such a span of versions.
Thanks,
Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin@dalsemi.com This space is for rent in order to increase company revenue.
i guess the data on your floppy was not cleanly written . either your floppy is defectuous, either the image you downloaded was corrupted
try to download the firmware again and use another floppy . and touch some wood