On 11/29/07, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow! I finally successfully did a firmware update on my embedded > platform which didn't require a reflash. I updated from 1.2-RC2 to > 1.2-RC3 downloaded a few minutes ago. The process I used was: > > upload tgz file to /tmp/firmware.tgz > select option 13, and used local file for upgrade > ... sat nervously watching serial console ... > system rebooted and everything came up. VPN (3 IPsec tunnels), rules, > etc. > > The *only* thing not right, and this has been reported before but > never reproduced it seems, is that the /etc/ttys file was for the full > version. Thus, there was no menu on the serial port console. Copying > over the ttys_wrap file from CVS and "kill -1 1" fixed that.
That is strange. The system executes /tmp/post_upgrade_command which detects the platform and writes out the tty file. > > I do notice that there is one funny error on the Firmware screen now: > Just to the left of the "Enable Firmware Uplaod" button is this string: > > echo "This platform cannot be upgraded. Consider using option 13 > from the console."; exit; Ooops. I'll check into this. > and then it lets you click the button anyhow. (I needed this to make > the file system writable for updating the ttys file, so I'm glad that > bug was there). Simply run /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw from a shell or you can use the new fancy pfSsh.php and simply issue a conf_mount_rw(); and conf_mount_ro(); Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
