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Re: odd serial input bug in redboot 095308 20010607 on iP



On 08-Jun-2001 David Bliss wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:44:12AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>  
>> Sorry, that wasn't 100% clear from your first message.
> 
> My apologies.
> 
>> > Interestingly, even when serial is working, I can't make it accept any
>> > files via xmodem.  Gives 3 retries and then aborts back to the prompt
>> > (at least, it's sitting at the prompt, very confused, when I abort the
>> > upload on the PC).  
>> 
>> So, how did you get RedBoot installed in the first place?
> 
> Apparently I was unclear here also: running RedBoot via osloader from WinCE
> worked just fine (for quite a period of time) with none of these diffculties.  
> That's how I uploaded the current RedBoot in flash.
> 

Obviously this took a similar path to system initialization that got things working.
Makes sense.

>> WHat are you trying to load?  It could be the case that the load command is
>> quitting for some other reason and your download utility (minicom, hyperterm)
>> just keeps trying.  RedBoot will actually take around 60 seconds to give up
>> on a serial download, only after some 20 retries each 3 seconds apart.
> 
> nanoxdemo.gz.  I haven't tried anything else, so it could be specific to this
> file.
>

Try uncompressing the file on the server (host) end.  Then try the load command
  RedBoot> load -r -b 0x20000 -m ym
  RedBoot> go 0x20040



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