On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, John David Anglin wrote: > > > In the section on replacing the system board, it says to use the ss_update > > > utility in the BCH Service menu to reset the serial number. Is the MFG > > > menu accessible? There may be some hidden commands to setup config. > > > > There is a service menu, but no mfg menu and no ss_update command. > > > > Interesting ... "mfg" gives "ERROR: Unsupported command" while any other > > bad commands gives "ERROR: Unknown command". > > > > So there is something magic abouth that "mfg" menu, but it's inaccessible. > > The mfg menu was shown in an online document about setting up the c8000. > > I would guess that ss_update command and mfg menu disappear after > the unit has been configured. Probably, the configuration data needs > to be erased/reset to restore the menu. Possibly, reflashing the > bch firmware would do it, or maybe there is a ODE command to reset > the config. > > You might try downloading the firmware update. At least for the > rp3440, one burns an ODE CD. Then, one boots the CD and uses various > ODE commands to flash the firmware. There was definitely a lot > more stuff on the CD than just the utilities to flash the firmware. > Of course, one mistake and you brick the system. It would probably > take HP specific JTAG tools to recover. > > Dave I found some HPUX binary, as a firmware upgrade for C8000, that I didn't run (it says it upgrades to the same version that I have). I'm quite scared to run rp3440 CD on an unsupported system. But I'll try anyway. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
