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

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