In my original post, I whimpered about a V880 that would not be updated... > When I went to update [OBP], however, I got the dreaded > > **ERROR: System security is set: System firmware was not modified. > > Well, I'm out of ideas. The jumpers are correct. They've even been > taken off and checked to make sure they're right. Both normal and > diag key positions have been tried. Standalone boot and update from > Solaris. Just about every variation I could think of (made all the > more painful by having to walk someone through this 1000 miles away) > Even Google hasn't come up with anything. Joshua Newswanger pointed me at > *Document Audience:* SPECTRUM > *Document ID:* 210487 > *Old Document ID:* (formerly 48027) > *Title:* Sun Fire[TM] V880 or V480 firmware: Unable to Flashupdate: > "ERROR: system security set: system firmware was not modified" The key being if the setting of the EEPROM variable 'security-mode' is anything other than "none," you will NOT be able to update the firmware using flashprom (which was true in my case). Frustratingly I had tried putting this into sunsolve but apparently I did not contrive to search with quite the right keywords. Sigh. -- Tim Kirby 651-605-9074 trk@cray.com Cray Inc. Information Systems _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sat Sep 20 22:39:08 2008
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