RAQ3 won't boot or restore after ROM upgrade....
The machine is a RAQ3, before the recent upgrade had 96M RAM and a (dead) 8G HD. Now it has 512M RAM, 120G HD. First I reloaded the restore CD, lastest version for RAQ3. No problems, worked great. I should have left well enough alone, but...
I thought I'd try the upgrade to the 550 OS, and flashed the ROM to the latest version (available on Sourceforge), 2.10.3. The flash seemed to work fine - verified with no problems. On reboot, kernel panic.
On a new restore attempt, the machine begins the remote install, lays out filesystems and starts to add packages... then at some point kernel panics.
I tried both the RAQ3 and RAQ550 OS. The 550 OS fails sooner - it ***HALT*** 's when trying to mount the new partitions (never makes it to package install, never gets far enough to panic).
So, I might be hosed. One thought, though -- at the beginning of the restore, the system performs some sort of 'check'. For the RAQ550, this is where it would automagically update the ROM if needed (so I found out later). Because my ROM is newer than the version it would upgrade it to, it does not perform that step.
My thought would be if I could just force it to perform the ROM 'upgrade', it would lay down an older but probably working version of the ROM and all would be good.
Any ideas how to force it to do that? OR, any other ideas that might save my arse here?
Thanks in advance!
