Urgent: Pegasos II needs Open Firmware update!

[Hooligan_DCS]

Luckily the machine is easy to fix back. Would be a bitch if someone would have to send it back for this.

[Hooligan_DCS]

@Hammer

>Does this "nasty stuff" have the ability to cause the system to stop from booting up?

From own hand experience: yes it does.
I had a mobo which refused to boot when a big harddrive was attached, until the latest bios version was updated to handle it.

Ok so in practise it's not a bug but lack of support for feature in bios.. but.. anyway.

[Hooligan_DCS]

@Hammer

Can't remember did it show up in BIOS or not. Maybe I didn't even check as it was so obvious the BIOS needed flashing. Anyway it is, it didn't boot ;-)

[Hooligan_DCS]

@Hammer

The machine hung after device check when that harddrive was attached (so BIOS was accessible but a lockup occures if you didn't go to BIOS set-up).
The BIOS had to be updated by removing the harddrive, installing a floppydrive, booting from a disk and flashing the BIOS.

After this it was okay to attach the harddrive again and we got pass the device check.
I wouldn't call this bootable.