Upgrade 6081RC Firmware

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1 6081RC Upgrade procedure for firmware and CoMon bootloader Date Action Sign-off 1/22/2009 Write initial upgrade procedure for firmware & CoMon bootloader Nathan Meyer 1/27/2009 Edit to simplify procedure and eliminate problems that may occur Nathan Meyer during upgrade 2/11/2009 Corrected misspellings. Nathan Meyer NOTE: Read this document in its entirety before attempting to upgrade. The software release shown in this document is The current version is which should be used for the 6081RC/800 upgrade. Upgrade 6081RC Firmware You need two connections from the Windows PC to the ForeFront card 6081RC/800. Assumptions: Connect the PC s serial port to the 6081RC s console port Connect the PC s ENET port to the 6081RC s Ethernet port. My Windows PC: / RC/800H card: o o factory default configuration, that is, as received in the Patton shipment. The 6081RC/800 is already booted up (that is, powered up and running). You will be using three programs through the process of upgrading the firmware and the CoMon bootloader. The assumption is that a Windows PC, such as XP, will be used for the upgrade. DOS cmd window TeraTerm (which I have included in the zipped file for this task) Tftp32 (also included in the zipped file) Install the TeraTerm and the tftp32 on your Windows PC with shortcuts on your PC s desktop before continuing. Then do the next steps. 1. Open a DOS command line window. (Start Run cmd ) 2. Open TeraTerm a. Click on the icon shortcut on your desktop b. Setup Serial Port i. Com1 (or the com port being used) ii (baud rate) iii. 8 bits iv. No parity Page 1 of 15

2 v. 1 stop bit vi. No flow control c. Setup Windows i. Scroll buffer = 300 lines 3. Open the tftp server (included with the software sent to you.) a. Notice that the Server interfaces lists the IP address of my PC (which has the tftp32 server). 4. From TeraTerm, press <Enter> to get the login prompt. Login with the following username and password. Username = admin Password = <Enter> //it is a null password NOTE: to see the command set from the # prompt, enter? (without the quotes). In the following image, you do not (and will not) see the? (question mark) entered at the prompt. However the image does show the commands. Page 2 of 15

3 5. Enter the command reload to reboot the 6081RC/800. The following image shows the boot aborting when you press any key (the red box). It puts you into the bootloader CoMon prompt > (the green box). 6. From the > prompt, execute the config command (blue box) to verify the IP address of eth0/a (red box) and the IP address of my PC (green box) which is functions as the download server Page 3 of 15

4 7. Next you should enter the command sysinfo (blue box). a. Verify that the bootloader CoMon is version 4.2 (red box), Image 1 and Image 2 are both version (green boxes) NOTE: to see the help menu for the bootloader CoMon prompt >, enter help (blue box). Page 4 of 15

5 8. Reboot the 6081RC/800 card from the bootloader CoMon prompt with the command reboot 04:16:53 37C > reboot 9. After the card is fully rebooted, ping the 6081RC/800H card from the DOS command line window to verify IP connectivity with the card. (NOTE: When the booting process completes normally, the IP address of the card is typically is However if it does not respond, ping ) Open your PC s browser. 10. Enter the 6081RC s default IP address: a. Login with the same username and password as above. b. Click on the System link, then the Software Upgrade (green box). c. In the Upload section of the main screen, click on Browse and select the firmware which is on your PC. That is, select 6081rc tar Page 5 of 15

6 11. Click on the Submit button. While the 6081RC is downloading the.tar firmware, you will see this message: The software upgrade has started. Please. Next the message changes to: The software upgrade is in progress. Please wait as this may take a few minutes. Percent complete: xx% After the 6081RC has completed the software upgrade, this message appears: Software upgrade is complete. You may now restart to use the new software. Page 6 of 15

7 Do NOT restart the card yet! 12. Click on System Software Upgrade and in Image Overview, select 2 for Next Image (red box). a. Then click on the Submit button. Be sure that TeraTerm is still connected to the console port of the 6081RC. 13. Click on the Reboot button in the upper right hand corner of the browser s 6081RC GUI page. See in above image. The Reboot button is enclosed with a red box. a. Then click on Yes, reboot now. button. Page 7 of 15

8 14. Quickly move to your TeraTerm screen. It will take a few seconds for the 6081RC to shut down, and then you will see the heading and shortly, you will see the message Press any key to abort. 15. At this time, press any key. It aborts the reboot. (See the red box in the image below.) Aborting the booting process puts you into the bootloader command line with its prompt, >. (See the green box in the image below.) You will see the default IP address on etha. (See the purple box in the image above.) Note that the IP address is Enter the bootloader command config l (minus ell) (blue box). The next image shows console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw rootfstype=jffs2. This needs to be changed for both image 1 and image 2. Use the left- and right-arrows on your keyboard to move the cursor to edit the image 1 and image 2 system boot command line strings. 17. Add the text squashfs and rw to the line for image 1. Press <enter>. (Purple box) Page 8 of 15

9 18. Then do the same on the line for image 2. Press <enter>. (Purple box) 19. Press <enter> on the line network. 20. Enter Y and then <enter>. (Red box) 04:49:25 37C >config l CoMon configuration: system boot command line strings [255 characters max]: image 1 > console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 rw <Enter> image 2 > console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 rw <Enter> network > <Enter> overwrite configuration data in flash OK to continue [Y/N]? Y <Enter> Unlocking Intel Flash Type J3 erasing block 71h.. completed programming block 71h.. completed -ok 21. Next execute the command sysinfo. a. It provides you information for the bootloader CoMon version, the firmware versions in Image 1 and Image 2. Refer to the next image. The Bootloader is CoMon version 4.2. Firmware Image 1 is version Firmware Image 2 is version (just upgraded) Now we prepare to use tftp for upgrading the bootloader to CoMon version 4.3. The tftp server shown in the next image indicates Page 9 of 15

10 Current Directory C:\ o This is where I have put the comon-4_3.bin file for the tftp server to get. If you have the.bin file in another directory, you need to change the Current Directory to that directory. Server interfaces o This is the IP address of my PC. Next I arrange the three programs on my PC s screen as follows. The tftp window The DOS command line window The TeraTerm program 22. Verify connectivity to the 6081RC/800 by pinging from from the PC s DOS window. Page 10 of 15

11 23. From the bootloader prompt in TeraTerm, enter the following command for getting the new bootloader (CoMon) version 4.3 from your PC. > tftp get comon -f comon-4_3.bin <ip address of your PC> This is highlighted with the green box in the next image. 24. Press Y when prompted by the upgrade process for the bin image to be installed indicated by the red box in the following image. Page 11 of 15

12 Let the card finish booting until the login script. 25. Log in with username = admin and password = <enter> 26. Enter the following commands at the prompt as follows: (none) login: admin password: <enter> (none)# configure (none) [config] # enable wmi (none) [config] # write (none) [config] # exit (none) # reload After the card has completed rebooting, enter the IP address of the 6081RC/800 card in the browser. At this point the browser, the default IP address is Go to the Software Upgrade page in the browser as you did before. a. Select the 6081rc-800-2_5_8.tar file and click on the Submit button. b. Complete the upgrade procedure as before. This will upgrade Image 1 to the firmware, version It is necessary that both Image 1 and Image 2 both have the version 2.5.8, because the old version (2.4.8) will not boot up correctly with the new CoMon 4.3.After the upgrade, you can verify that both images are version FINISHED Page 12 of 15

13 Introduction Appendix The remainder of this document is an Appendix that provides details with commands that are performed at the boot-loader level. Many of these commands were used in the main body of this document that describes the upgrade procedure. Assumptions in Upgrading CoMon 1. The TFTP is up and configured 2. The TFTP is accessible to the device 3. The device is accessible via the console port CoMon is the boot-loader for the 3224/6081 family of products. The remainder of this document concerns itself with commands that are performed at the boot-loader level. Gaining access to the boot-loader requires direct console access. Once the console cable is connected to the device and the console emulator is running the device has to be rebooted. It does not matter if it is a hard reboot (power cycle) or soft reboot (reboot from software). During boot-up press any key to escape to CoMon. There is a 5 second delay before the functional image is booted. If the window is missed simply power cycle the unit and try again. Optional Information Gather the following information prior to attempting an Upgrade. It is not strictly required, but if the upgrade does not work it is nice information to have. Configuration The "config" command can be used to print the current configuration of CoMon. Sysinfo The "sysinfo" command provides several important pieces of information including: Board revision 2. CoMon version 3. Image info 1. Changing (Configuring) the CoMon's IP By default CoMon IP is with a netmask of If you need to change the IP address to access the TFTP server, then CoMon will have to be configured with the config e command. For the following example we will assume that we are on the /24 network, that is the default gateway, and that is a free IP. After configuring an IP address on CoMon you MUST reboot for it to take effect. Page 13 of 15

14 Example: 00:00:00--36C >config -e CoMon configuration: eth0/a IP address > [enter] eth0/a subnet mask > [enter] eth1/b IP address > [enter] eth1/b subnet mask > [enter] default gateway IP address > [enter] overwrite configuration data in flash - OK to continue [Y/N]? [Y] Unlocking... erasing block 71h.. completed programming block 71h.. completed -ok 00:00:00--36C >reboot 2. Ping the TFTP server Once the device has been rebooted the connection with the TFTP should be tested. The command ping can be used to test if it can route to the TFTP server, but note that it requires a ctrl-c to stop it. In the following example we assume the TFTP server is Example: 00:00:00-36C >ping Pinging with 32 bytes of data: - 32 data bytes received, time = 5ms - 32 data bytes received, time = 2ms - 32 data bytes received, time = 2ms [ctrl-c] 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss; round trip time minimum 2ms, maximum 5ms, average 3ms. -ok 3. TFTP the Comon Image Once connectivity can be guaranteed it is time to actually do the image upgrade. This is done with the tftp command. The exact syntax is tftp get [image1 image2 comon] -f <image name> <tftp server>. Note: You MUST press 'Y' when prompted by the upgrade process for the image to be installed. Example: 00:00:00-36C >tftp get comon -f comon-4_3.bin TFTP read file 'comon-4_3.bin' from , buffer address=0xa , maximum size= , mode=octet TFTP connection to server, local port 51927, remote port 32969:...[224k] TFTP transfer completed, bytes received. erasing and re-writing bootsector - OK to continue [Y/N]? [Y] executing - system will reboot after bootsector update.. Page 14 of 15

15 4. Check the image command lines Trinity file system requirements have changed so they must be verified to be correct. Both image command lines should read console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 rw. The CoMon command config -l (minus ell) can be used to verify/correct this. Example: 00:00:00--36C >config -l CoMon configuration: system boot command line strings [255 characters max]: image 1 > console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 rw [enter] image 2 > console=ttys0,19200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 rw [enter] network > [enter] overwrite configuration data in flash - OK to continue [Y/N]? [Y] Unlocking... erasing block 71h.. completed programming block 71h.. completed -ok Page 15 of 15