[rescue] Loading FCode via RARPD/TFTP

Meelis Roos mroos at linux.ee
Wed Jun 23 06:41:20 CDT 2021


> I've been playing with my TurboGX+ card's FCode to get it to use
> different timings and higher resolutions.  So far I used a serial
> connection to load the FCode, now I thought I could load it over the
> network and automate the process by placing the relevant lines in
> nvramrc.  The TGX+ is in sbus slot 0 and I removed it from the
> probe-sbus-list; the contents of my nvramrc is as follows:

Not sure about Suns but I have used TFTP to run OBP commands to reset the password on a Motorola Powerstack machine with advice from this list. I think the only thing I needed to do was to put the OBP commands in a text file that qould be served as the default for netbooting this host. A helpful Japanese guy taught it here.

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Meelis Roos


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