[c-nsp] 6500/SUP32 - RP ROMMON upgrade?

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Charles Spurgeon wrote on 15/06/2009 21:54:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:29:58PM -0500, Graham Wooden wrote:
>> Thanks David and Dale for the insights.
>>
>> SP Rommon was pretty far back, and upgrading it solved an issue I was
>> having. However, after reading the caveats listed for the MSFC2A, I don't
>> think I am going to mess with the RP - until I really need to.
> 
> Another data point along the lines of "if it ain't broke..."
> 
> When we did a SP rommon upgrade to 45 sup720s a while back (to fix
> some serious booting bugs) we lost one sup720 when it became bricked
> due to a failed rommon upgrade.
> 

Since there is a resident (GOLD) rommon also, couldn't that one be used for "recovery"?

-- 
Tassos

> Since then the risk of bricking the sup720 has been added to the list
> of reasons that we don't mess with the rommon unless we have to.
> 
> -Charles
> 
> Charles E. Spurgeon / UTnet
> UT Austin ITS / Networking
> c.spurgeon at its.utexas.edu / 512.475.9265
> 
> 
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