On 2009-03-24, Vasily Ivanov <vas...@anabar.ru> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:57:26AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> > 1. I cannot do upgrade of BIOS (1.33->1.33c)
>> 
>> cu on OpenBSD works reliably following these instructions:
>> http://wiki.soekris.info/Updating_Bios#cu_and_tip
>
> it fails also.
>
> ----------------------------------
> .....
>> download -
> ~C> lsz -X b.bin
> Sending b.bin, 784 blocks: Give your local Xmodem receive command now
>
> Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 0/0k Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 19/2k Retry 0: NAK on sectors
> Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 80/0k Retry 0: Got 72 for sector ACK
>
> Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> ...                            (11 times retry)
> Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
>
> Transer incomplete
> -------------------------------------------------------

Then I would have to guess at a cable problem, I can confirm this method
has worked many times for me, on all sorts of hardware (real and USB serial
ports, 4501/4521/4526/4801/5501) and cables (homemade DE9-RJ45 adapters,
commercial 3-wire cables, commercial null modem cables)..




>> > Below I attached four logs:
>> >  a) with the only CF card. There OpenBSD 4.5 on card, this system is
>> >     correctly work on laptop, for example.
>> >  b) with the on HDD, OpenBSD 4.5 .
>> >  c) PXEBoot log with OpenBSD 4.4
>> >  d) two attempts to do BIOS upgrade
>> >
>> > The a,b and c have the same finish.
>> 
>> you missed "set tty com0" at the boot loader prompt.
> Yes, I had done it in cases a) and b) --- I had got absolutely empty output.
>
> Thanks, 
> Vasily

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