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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Doing a lot of replying to my own posts... <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I figured this one out. I was able to download a replacement firmware from Vertiv:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.vertiv.com/en-us/support/software-download/it-management/legacy/acs-classic-advanced-console-servers-software-downloads/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_1251781524">ACS Classic Advanced Console Server Software Downloads</a></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My CF reader came in and I imaged the file that was on there. I simply tried writing the new firmware, but not dice. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Some poking around with a hex editor and I realized some byte swapping was needed:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><p style="margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; color: rgb(50, 55, 63); font-family: Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">hexdump -v -e '1/2 "%04x"' -e '"\n"' FL0536-017.bin | xxd -r -p > test1.img</p><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I was able to dd the resulting file to the CF card and linux booted right up. I was unable to log in, but realized I may need hardware flow control. A few minutes later, I had a new serial cable and was able to log in! It felt good to bring this system back from the dead. I likely could have used the recovery procedure below had my serial cable been functioning from the get go, but c'est la vie. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">[root@CAS root]# uname -a
</span><br>Linux CAS 2.6.22 #1 Thu Oct 9 07:42:42 PDT 2014 ppc unknown
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On Friday, November 24, 2023 at 08:41:55 AM CST, Michael Dombrowski via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb60a2aadyiv1842970070"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="ydpb60a2aadyiv1842970070yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr">I snagged a Cyclades Alterpath ACS16 for cheap off ebay... On first boot, I got a self-test screen, but since then, I am just locked into a boot loop, and the self-test screen does not reappear. The following message loops endlessly:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">loaded at: 00002120 00E8D45C
</span><br>relocated to: 00400020 0128B35C
<br>board data at: 01289120 0128935C
<br>relocated to: 00405240 0040547C
<br>zimage at: 00406444 00546863
<br>initrd at: 00547000 012883D0
<br>avail ram: 0128C000 08000000
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<br>Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/ram rw
<br>Uncompressing Linux...done.<br></span><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I found what looks to be a flash recovery process, but it requires getting that self-test process to reappear:<br></div><div><a href="https://theregime.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/avocent-acs-repair/" class="ydpb60a2aadyiv1842970070" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theregime.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/avocent-acs-repair/</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyone know how to coax these machines back into functioning? I removed the dead NVRAM battery just to see if that could coax it back into functioning, but no dice. There is onboard flash, as well as a CF card. If I pull the CF card, I get no output at all from the serial console, so I wonder if the onboard flash is just the bootloader to load from the compactflash, which brings me to my second question: anyone have one of these and the ability to image the compactflash card?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">thanks</div><div dir="ltr">mike<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My first boot:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin-top:0.6em;margin-bottom:1.35em;color:rgb(50, 55, 63);font-family:Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Booting from Original Boot 2.0.7 (Apr/21/04)<br>Cyclades Corporation</p><p style="margin-top:0.6em;margin-bottom:1.35em;color:rgb(50, 55, 63);font-family:Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Testing RAM .............................. SKIPPED<br>Memory detected: 131072 Kbytes<br>Testing FLASH ............................ OK<br>Flash detected: 256 Kbytes<br>Testing Flash [Configuration] ............ OK<br>Storage Device Detected .................. OK<br>IDE HD SMC128BFD6E<br>Size: 128 Mbytes<br>Testing Storage Device [Op Code] ......... SKIPPED<br>Interface Cards Detected ................. OK<br>16-UART ports detected<br>PCMCIA Support Detected .................. OK<br>Power Supply Capability .................. SINGLE<br>Testing Ethernet ......................... NOK<br>Testing Real Time Clock .................. NOK<br>Testing Serial Number..................... OK<br>ID is 5159001100004F<br>Hardware boot.</p><p style="margin-top:0.6em;margin-bottom:1.35em;color:rgb(50, 55, 63);font-family:Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Entry Point = 0x00002120</p><p style="margin-top:0.6em;margin-bottom:1.35em;color:rgb(50, 55, 63);font-family:Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">loaded at: 00002120 00E8D45C<br>relocated to: 00400020 0128B35C<br>board data at: 01289120 0128935C<br>relocated to: 00405240 0040547C<br>zimage at: 00406444 00546863<br>initrd at: 00547000 012883D0<br>avail ram: 0128C000 08000000</p><p style="margin-top:0.6em;margin-bottom:1.35em;color:rgb(50, 55, 63);font-family:Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/ram rw<br>Uncompressing Linux...done.</p></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div>
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