Re: installation on a 7249-860

On 02-Jun-2006 [email protected] wrote:
> There is also a 'Super Test' icon, but it's disabled, and I don't
> know the key combination to activate it.

Hrmm.. on the 7248.. there were a set of magical passwords that would unlock a
low-end debug mode.  The most common of which was "eatabug".  The rest were FW
version dependant, and listed inside the firmware upgrade instructions.

(firmware for most models is here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/rs6000/firmware/ )

Unfortunately yours isn't listed..  However.. a long time ago I managed to
download full docs for your machine..  Google for these filenames:

sg242581.pdf
sg244592_IBM_PC_&_ThinkPad_Power_Series.pdf

If you can't find them.. let me know and I'll send you the ones I have.  I only
read them looking for hardware info.. so I skipped over anything about
operation of the machine.


I do find it utterly bizzare that your machine thinks it has a floppy drive
when none is present.  On my machine, when I powercycle it, it recognizes new
hardware, and that hardware shows up in the firmware if it's a recognized part.
Maybe they hardcoded it..  who knows... Normally I'd tell you to yank the
battery and see if that resets it.. but I'm afraid it might over-reset it and
your firmware might stop working.  Given there are no replacement images, and
no floppy to load them with, I wouldn't risk it.

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