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V3 BIOS flash step by step
Step by step flashing of V3 bios back to V1

New MessageV3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) Bluejay
This is a compilation of several threads showing step by step how I hacked my V3.

Original V3 bios shows 3/23/2000 Bios date VP4-686-PPC-VIAC-00

Sundisk SDTB-128 primary ide slave


How to flash BIOS using a Hitachi DK-239A-65 IDE drive.

1) On another computer: Download V1 or V2 image file to C:
2) Connect drive to computer as IDE primary slave
(could not get dolly to work with secondary ide drives)
3)in BIOS manually set drive geometry to 490/2/32 (C/H/S) .
4) Using DOS, (not a DOS window)
if drive was previously used fdisk drive to wipe out existing partitions
download dolly from hotfiles.com
dolly "filename" hd129: (for primary slave ide drive)

fdisk will show
1 A NON-DOS 2 2%
2 NON-DOS 2 2%
3 NON-DOS - %
4 NON-DOS 10 12%

4) Remove slave jumper from drive and install in IO
using normal ps2 keyboard and mouse
(mouse plugs in to kb jack and keyboard into mouse jack of splitter)
5) Boot IO and get into BIOS (Hold TAB key down then CTRL ALT ESC)
6) Manually set geometry on primary master to none
and primary slave to 490/2/65535/489/32 normal (C/H/S),
leave translation set to Normal
7) Reboot IO
8) When keyboard picture comes up bring up the QNX prompt via the TAB,4444 method.
At this point you should have a "#" prompt.
9) Enter the command: "cd app/ztest"
10) Enter the command "ls " to check to see if the files are all there. You should see: qnxflash, bios_image_256k.bin and some others.
11) Start the flashing with the command: "./qnxflash -w bios_image_256k.bin"
if you get an error message follow the directions and rerun qnxflash DO NOT REBOOT
I had to do it twice but it worked fine the second time and now I am able to boot any drive.


Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this hack. If you can find me the beers on me.

I tried to use winimage to write the disk from windows but it didn't like the image file but dolly works fine.

05-19-2000 19:27:13

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) magnum31
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Can you go uver steps on getting the dump files i=on to 2.5 drive in more details
06-07-2000 22:45:40

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) magnum31
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Can you please go over the steps on getting the 2.5 drive set up to flash bios. I didn't understand if I had to format 2.5 drive first or if dolly would do that and how to get dump file on to 2.5 drive ???? sorry but I am trying to learn
06-07-2000 22:51:02

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) Mustafa
If the drive is new, you just run Dolly on it. If you have partitions on it, delete them with fdisk before using Dolly.

Question for others:
I presume that the harddrives are numbered in the order that they appear on the IDE buss starting at hd128:, for example on a two harddrive system, a harddrive that is the secondary master would be called hd129:. If that second harddrive was a secondary slave, it would still be hd129:, even if there are ZIP/CDR/CDROM drives installed.

06-08-2000 16:21:04

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) BlueJay
The image Dolly writes to the disk should give the 4 partitions that I mentioned in the original posting. Just use fdisk to erase any existing partitions if the drive had been used before.

Was never able to get dolly to work with secondary ide.

06-09-2000 18:09:12

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) dimon
I just got an I-opener with Rise 266 CPU.
When I tried to flash the BIOS using my BH6 motherboard I got an error message from the
AWDFLASH.exe utility saying "Unknown flash type!". But when I try to flash it with original BH6.bin
file it works fine. Thus now I ended up with two bios chips having BH6 bios on them.
Did anybody have this error when they tried to put io256k.bin using AWDFLASH.EXE ?
Any advice?
Thanks.
06-10-2000 15:00:00

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) Searchlight
TheSearchlight does still work.Searchlight reports the following for using BH6 to flash IO chip. http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=529&Idle=&Sort=&Order=&Page=&Session=
06-10-2000 18:42:37

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) DumbMe
What HDs will work? I am thinking of getting either the Seagate's 1.45 gig (ST91430AG), 2808/16/63 (C/H/S), or Maxtor's 1.35 gig (MXT-251350AT).
06-11-2000 18:03:58

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) Celtic1
Dimon.. have you tried the /f switch after awdflash? It's supposed to overwrite everything.
06-12-2000 23:00:00

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) Doogie
Could someone please take a minute to try and help I would greatly appreciate it.

I've followed the thread "V3 ez step by step" and now this thread for a few months off and on (more off than on) but never the less I can't for the life of me get this thing to a prompt.

I just ran thru this step by step and still nothing. The only thing I noticed is that when I checked partition info (after what appears to be a successful dolly session) is that the 1st and 2nd partition is showing 13% instead of 2% as the instuctions show, and the 4th is showing 67% instead of 12%. All other patition info is the same.

Im using a Fujitsu mhf2043at (4.3gig)hard drive is that why the % are higher? and if the Iopener's bios has the primary master set to none and the secondary set to 490/2/65535/489/32 normal does this mean that if it boots without errors that it running of the hard drive?

Doogie

06-21-2000 15:12:57

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) *StarFish*
Souunds like You Need to Delete All Partitions on the drive with FDISK, & try again. Good Luck, * StarFish *
06-21-2000 15:37:38

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) MeToo
I am also getting 13% 0% 13% 67%, what's up with that? I deleted all partitions on that drive and followed the instructions.
07-10-2000 14:24:47

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) *SF*
My Guess, CABLE or whatever is different, from DOLLYing the Image, to trying to Detect the Hard Drive in Your I-Opener !!!
Talk to Me, What changes ? ? ?

* StarFish *

07-10-2000 16:13:56

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) *SF*
I want to change My Guess to:
It's a Drive who's C?/H?/S? is Not as Large as Required.

Your Turn How did I do ?

07-10-2000 16:18:59

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) MeToo
I am not even to the point of putting the HD to the IO yet, still trying to get the DOLLY to work right, I set the bios to 490C/2H/32S, with all partitions of the HD deleted, got into DOS (not DOS prompt), used dolly with c:\dolly <image name> hd129: Then checked the HD with fdisk, and it shows:

1 A NON-DOS 2 13%
2 NON-DOS 2 13%
3 NON-DOS - %
4 NON-DOS 10 67%

I have 3 images downloaded, all are 15,680KB, 2 of them gives me the above partitions, and the other one gives 13% 0% 13% 67%, no matter how many times I tried. So I staying with the first 2 image files, since it looks closer to 2% 2% 0% 12%.

I still don't get why it's not giving me 2% 2% 0% 12%, I tried setting bios to both LBA on and off, still no good. I am using an old Maxtor 3.5" by the way, so it's not the 2.5" to 3.5" converter problem, since I am not even using it, I am just connecting it with normal 40 pin IDE cable as primary slave.

07-12-2000 14:11:13

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) *SF*
To MeToo,
I have to agree with You, If You can't get FDISK Happy, I don't think your I-Opener will like it either.
But, & this is just a Question.
What if your problem isn't the HardDrive, Maybe? it could be Your MotherBoard ?
(and What it sees ?)(Just maybe the I-Opener would see it as you want ?)
(I don't know, I was Lucky, I only had to find a Good Image)
07-12-2000 14:27:33

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) MeToo
Thanks for the tip *SF* I guess I'll try connecting it to the IO and see if it will work.
07-12-2000 17:00:24

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) You_Becha
Okay done multiple searches etc.

I have dollied a IBM laptop drive a few dozen different ways.
I am not convinced that it is working using the NEW v2_q102 image.

I have to set the drive parameters on the host computer to 491 2 32 normal in order to get the correct sized output.
490 2 32 gives the wrong size.

Or I can set blah blah blah 490LZ and LDA and also get the correct sized output. Any other choice gives the wrong size through dolly.

Since I cannot get the doner system to boot with the dollied disk, I can't expect much else from the Iopener. Hard drive failure.

There are other settings in the BIOS for the IDE, how do you folks have that set.

I need help!

07-13-2000 17:46:35

New MessageRE:V3 BIOS flash step by step (modified 0 times) tomatom
IBM HDDs are erratic---2 older/smaller ones wouldn't boot my i/o,
but my 6gig 9.5 mm travelstar/ibm worked fine---my advice = dolly
with anything BUT ibm, flash bios, then use any HDD...
07-17-2000 09:49:21

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