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Re: Failsafe Firmware Updates
- From: Tim michals <tcmichals at yahoo dot com>
- To: Stewart Heitmann <stewart at heitmann dot id dot au>, ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:03:21 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] 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?
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> Stewart Heitmann
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