[Avila] Redboot fis error

Kevin Fisk kevin.fisk at waveteq.com
Wed Jan 3 13:28:57 EST 2007


Try unlocking it first. I had a similar error and while my location was 
different I had to specifically unlocked the section before 'fis init'. 
Could be a bug? I haven't investigated thoroughly enough to understand 
but this worked for me.

Cheers, Kevin

David Acker wrote:
> Ahmet Basagalar wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> I have just tried 'fis init -f'. it gave me a similar error message
>>
>> About to initialize [format] FLASH image system - continue (y/n)? y
>> *** Initialize FLASH Image System
>> ... Erase from 0x50080000-0x50fe0000: 
>> ...........................................................Err = a2
>>
>>   initialization failed 0x507e0000: Error trying to erase
>> ... Unlock from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: .
>> ... Erase from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: Err = a2
>>
>> Error erasing FIS directory at 0x50fe0000: Error trying to erase
>> ... Lock from 0x50fe0000-0x51000000: .
>>
>> In this case, I am going to assume that this is a bad flash and RMA 
>> this unit back to Gateworks. Any other suggestions before sending it 
>> back?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ahmet
> 
> Nope.  It sounds like the flash died.
> -Ack
> 
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