Sounds like a broken board to me, but I haven't seen that specific situation.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Nov 8, 2011 8:40 PM, "Scott Lambert" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an RB493G which I upgraded to RouterOS 5.8 tonight. The first > one went good, this one had to be power cycled. > > It came up and looked good. So I upgraded the firmware to 2.37. > That went worse than the OS upgrade. > > It will no longer output anything on the serial console when trying > to boot. > > If I hit the secondary bootloader button, it will boot on power up. > Then the OS works fine. > > I tried to flash the firmware again. > > "firmware upgraded successfully, please reboot for changes to take effect!" > > On reboot, there was no text on serial console after "shutting > down". > > I have to use the secondary boot loader again. > > I downgraded the OS back to 4.17, had to use the secondary boot > loader. Tried to "upgrade" the bootloader to 2.29. > > "firmware upgraded successfully, please reboot for changes to take effect!" > > Nothing. Had to use the secondary bootloader again. > > I've tried it a dozen times now. It always says the "upgraded > successfully". It always fails to load the primary bootloader. > > Any idea what else I can try? Is it time to send it back? > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111108/38c090fa/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
