Re: Updating Openboot PROM

[Matt Weatherford <mbw@u.washington.edu>]

Isnt there a jumper on the motherboard you must set so that
you allow to write over the PROM?  Its in the README for that
patch - J2 or something... could that be the problem?

Matt


Giulio Sichel wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm unable to update the boot prom on my Ultra 30. I've downloaded
> 105930-06 patch from sunsolve.com and I'm using network booting to
> get the image (flash-update-Ultra30-latest) from a rarp/tftp server
> in my LAN.
> The following command:
> 
> ok> boot net:192.168.1.1,flash-update-Ultra30-latest,192.168.1.2
> 
> works perfectly and starts downloading the byte stream but at a
> certain poin it stops donwloading and it prints:
> 
> "Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss"
> 
> so the flash update isn't started.
> What does it mean? How can I avoid this error?
> 
> Thank you
> 
>