Re: [cobalt-users] XTR to 550 OS upgrade procedure

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, josh wrote:

> I have about 10 pages worth of what not to do, from a project to
> update my XTR to 550 software. It seems that you can take down one
> system and let the other handle its load for a while. That is good.
> I will post more details of my experiece. The three things I would
> like to know before I tackle my update project again are:
>
> 1. How to update and verify the ROMS. I had some odd problems and I'm
>    not sure that the update of the ROMS went perfectly -- it reports
>    an acceptably current ROM. Where can you find out the differences?

AFAIK there is no document that defines the different
versions of the ROM, I did find a little info on;
http://cobalt.iceblink.org
The really confusing thing is that the ROM utilities work differently
in different versions.

> 2. How to burn a custom OSRCD with all the current versions of
>    software added. If you install and the update through BlueLinQ you
>    lose almost an hour or two in restarts.

You can edit the ISO at will, to add updates enter them in
nfsroot-x86/bto-sync/updates or RaQ4 bundles works. Be sure to
add a prefix, to difine the order, I use 00_, 01_ and so forth.
also http://cobaltfaqs.com has some info on custom OSRCD.

> 3. How to customize a kernal. Gerald Waugh mentioned (probably in a
>    private email - as I lost my main server (the RaQ XTR) I was trying
>    to upgrade - for a while.

There is a tech-note  on the developer site, http://developer.cobalt.com/
that gives some info on working with the kernel.

Gerald
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