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Re: Failsafe Firmware Updates


you can create your own command and use FIS to store
results

--- Stewart Heitmann <stewart@heitmann.id.au> wrote:

> Can Redboot be setup to boot a second linux image
> in case the first one fails to boot?
> 
> I want to be able to upgrade my firware in the
> field,
> and if the new firmware fails to boot then I would
> like Redboot to revert to a factory-default firmware
> image as a fallback position (on the next power-up).
> 
> So how can Redboot tell if the previous boot failed?
> And if it can tell, how does it then change its own
> config settings? The boot scripts don't appear to
> support conditional statements of any kind.
> 
> Any ideas?
> -- 
> Stewart Heitmann
> 
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