Tom As Soren politely desired all of us to do:
> Quick guide to updating: > > The comBIOS update code is not there until the new version has been > downloaded, so you need to use the uManager this time. Do: > > enter "+++" then 1 sec pause, you should then see the uManager prompt. > > # "download" - start xmodem download > # "update" - to update uManager itself > > You then need to power cycle the board to get everything ready again. This will not necessarily work on OSX, depending on your own way of doing USB <> serial; I connected my 6501 to a Linux machine with a physical RS232 port as my ancient Keyspan adapter doesn't work with the 6501 (yet -- I do not give up easily). However, You _must_ do the upgrade through uManager and Soren wrote instructions to this effect ;) I did a " screen /dev/ttyS0 38400" in an xterm on a RHEL6 machine and "sx -vv xxxx.BIN > /dev/ttyS0 < /dev/ttyS0" in another xterm and that sort of worked though not very prettily. In between one should hit the reset button, I believe. Google is your friend, you may start here http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-net6501-OpenBSD---BIOS-td32620628.html My 6501, which isn't about to run "production" for a long while because I do not quite trust it yet, now boots: 1024 Mbyte Memory CPU Atom E6xx 1000 Mhz SATA AHCI BIOS ver. 0.6 20110902 Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation Controller Bus#02, Device#06, Function#00: 02 Ports, 01 Devices Port-00: No device detected Port-01: Hard Disk, INTEL SSDMAESC020G2 Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.00 20111130 Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.72 PXE 2.1 Build 089 (WfM 2.0) Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int -------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:00:0 8086 4114 06000003 0007 0000 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 00:23:0 8086 8184 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 1FFF1000 A0FFA000 10 00:24:0 8086 8185 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100 11 00:25:0 8086 8180 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300 05 00:26:0 8086 8181 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 0FFF1000 00FFA000 09 00:31:0 8086 8186 06010000 0003 0000 00 00 80 00000000 00000000 02:02:0 8086 8804 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000B00 00000000 09 02:02:1 8086 8805 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000C00 00000000 09 02:02:2 8086 8806 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000D00 00000000 09 02:02:3 8086 8807 0C032001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000E00 00000000 09 02:06:0 8086 880B 01060101 0107 0010 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 11 02:08:0 8086 880C 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004800 00000000 10 02:08:1 8086 880D 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004900 00000000 10 02:08:2 8086 880E 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004A00 00000000 10 02:08:3 8086 880F 0C032001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004B00 00000000 10 02:10:1 8086 8811 07000200 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001041 A0004D00 09 02:10:2 8086 8812 07000200 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001049 A0004D10 09 02:12:2 8086 8817 0C800000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005000 05 02:12:3 8086 8818 0C090000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005200 05 03:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100 05:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A1000000 00000000 09 06:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A2000000 00000000 10 08:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300 10:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A3000000 00000000 10 11:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A4000000 00000000 11 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. etc etc, into FreeBSD 8.2 patched up to last week, with ad6: 19087MB <INTEL SSDMAESC020G2 2CV102M5> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s as boot device. Cool, but unacceptably expensive for boxes which I mean to run NanoBSD off a 4GB USB device or similar. Note that I haven't tried booting from USB yet. I shall be out of the country for a week or so and this device will probably be the least of my worries upon my return. BTW: initail impressions regarding NICs aren't unfavourable. See above disclaimer about lack of time, though. Met vriendelijke groet Jos Jansen Adjunct-directeur Techniek Snow B.V. Unix Specialists http://snow.nl Tel +31 345 656666 Fax +31 345 656665 On Dec 3, 2011, at 18:21 PM, Tom Weustink wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Zterm on Mac OS X (10.7.2) since afaik that is the only terminal > program able to send data files. > I tried sending using XMODEM as described on the wiki page for updating, and > the file seems to arrive alright. > But when I issue the flashupdate command, all I get is "Error, Incorrect > signature of BIOS image." > > I first downloaded the BIOS file with Safari, and second with a terminal > command (wget alias to curl -O). > No luck on both sadly. > > Anything that I am missing here? Hope to get this box booting from USB as > it's been laying around for almost 2 months now. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
