[Elphel-support] camera bricked after re-flashing to elphel353-8.0.9 :(

[Oleg K Dzhimiev]

Akos,

Does your PC loses ip when you disconnect the camera?
Could you check its ip after you launch ./netboot... (having "Starting
boot...") when the cam is disconnnected before putting it to the netboot
mode (you wrote somewhere the camera was connected directly to the PC).

Best regards,
Oleg

On 17 November 2010 10:11, Ákos Maróy <akos at maroy.hu> wrote:

> On 18/11/10 00:14, Andrey Filippov wrote:
> > Akos,
> >
> > Did you put the camera in netboot mode ("yellow led lights up
> > constantly, while the green led flashes
> > vigorously for a while.") before starting the program? This is safer,
>
> yes.
>
> I tried both ways:
>
> - start the netboot program, then do the netboot mode on the camera (as
> advised by the wiki page)
> - netboot mode on the camera (flashy green lights), then start the
> netboot script, while the green light still flashes
>
> I get the same effect :(
>
> > because if the program starts first and you connect/disconnect cable one
> > more time after it already entered netboot mode, the program can be
> > already past the  first part of the "dialog" with the camera and that
> > communication will break after camera is back into the "start" state.
> > Netboot mode is turned on by analog capacitor-based circuitry, so there
> > is no exact number of connections/disconnections needed to switch -
> > usually it happens on 3-rd, fourth or fifth time.
>
> yes, it happens something like that
>
> > But in your case it seems that something is wrong in either the software
> > built or maybe even some permissions for accessing Ethernet port. Can
> > you please compress and send build.log file (it should be in the top
> > installation directory)?
>
> sure, it's quite large, so I'll send in private. although I have to
> point out, the build did not go through (see my mail about the failing
> build). but, I'm trying to flash the 'stock' 8.0.9 image, not the one I
> build. I just entered the build process so that I have the netboot
> script and the etraxfsboot & related executables around...
>
>
> Akos
>
>
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Best regards,
Oleg Dzhimiev
Electronics Engineer
phone: +1 801 783 5555 x124
Elphel, Inc.
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