TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION No. TC0521 Ed.

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OmniPCX Enterprise Nb of pages : 10 Date : 18 March 2010

URGENT

NOT URGENT TEMPORARY PERMANENT

SUBJECT: REFORMATTING AND RELOADING THE GD/GD3/INTIP3 NAND FLASH WITH PC

INSTALLER

CONTENTS

1. AIM .............................................................................................3

2. ERASING AND RELOADING OF A GD OR GA BOARD ..................4

2.1. Erasing and formatting the NAND Flash................................................... 4
2.2. Downloading the GD binaries .................................................................. 7

3. ERASING AND RELOADING OF GD3 OR INITIP3 BOARD .............8

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1. AIM
The purpose of this technical communication is to provide a procedure which allows to reformat and
to reload the binaries for R5.1 and higher in case of corruption of the NAND Flash on a GD/GA
board or GD3/GA3/INTIP3 board.
Notes
− GD3/GA3/INTIP3 are available from OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer v2.26.
− The deliveries are retrieved from the patches installed in the directory dhs3mgr from the PC host.
It is requires that at least one static patch is available in this directory so that all type of binaries
GD, GD3 and INTIP3 are available for the download.

The initialization of a NAND Flash of a GD/GA board with OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer is
performed in two steps:
1 Erasing and formatting the NAND Flash.
2 Downloading GD binaries.
For the new generation boards, GD3/GA3/INTIP3, the reloading of the NAND flash still requires
those two steps, the erasing and reload, however the erasing step has been introduced directly in the
BIOS.

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2. ERASING AND RELOADING OF A GD OR GA BOARD

2.1. Erasing and formatting the NAND Flash

1 Connect directly the GD/GA board and the PC Server with an Ethernet crossed cable.

2 Start OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer.

• Select GD/GA/… binary in the field Installation type.
• Select option GD/GA in the field Type of Media Gateway board in the Installation
parameters window.
• Click on Apply in Installation Parameters window.

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The GD binaries (depending on the version) must be present under

/dhs3mgr/"version"/pcmao/boot_res/DHS3bin/downbin/emg directory.

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3 Start GD/GA board in LOLA mode.

• Set the dip switches 1, 2 and 4 to ON, the dip switch 3 to OFF position.
• Start the GD/GA board in Controller Position (Position 0 of the Rack).
• In this mode, the transfer of files can be monitored in Client parameters window of
OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer.

4 The different phases of erasing and reformatting can be viewed by LED CPU of the board
GD/GA:

Phase of bios 2 x ON/OFF (250ms)/ 1 OFF ( 2 s)

Phase of Linux.ram loading 4 x ON/OFF(250ms)/ 1 OFF ( 2 s)
Phase of erasing and formatting of the NAND FLASH Fixed ON
Phase of end of formatting of the NAND FLASH Fast flashing (50 ms/ 50 ms)

5 The end of formatting of the FLASH is viewed on the V24 configuration port with the following
message:

Welcome to PeeWeeLinux

(none) login:

6 Stop GD/GA board with On/Off switch and wait the red power LED changes to fix status.
7 Stop OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer application on PC Server.

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2.2. Downloading the GD binaries

1 Startup of the OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer.
• Select GD/GA/… binary in the field Installation type.
• Click on Apply in Installation Parameters window; see step 2 of §2.
• Configuration of GD/GA board in GD mode, set the dip switch 2 to ON, the dip switches 1,
3 and 4 to OFF position.
2 Restart the GD/GA board for the reloading of the binaries in Controller Position (Position 0 of
the Rack).
In this mode, there is monitoring on V24 configuration port (9600 8-N-1) and the transfer of the
different e-MGD binaries can be monitored in Client parameters window of OmniPCX
Enterprise PC Installer.

3 At the end of GD binaries download an e-mgd admin user login is displayed on V24
configuration port. Then it is possible to enter into mgconfig menu to set the IP configuration.
4 Stop GD/GA board with On/Off switch and waiting the red power LED changes to fix status.
5 Stop OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer application on PC Server.
6 In case of a GA board, change the dip switches 1 and 2 to ON, dip switches 3 and 4 to OFF
position.

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3. ERASING AND RELOADING OF GD3 OR INITIP3 BOARD

The LOLA mode doesn’t exist anymore on the new generation boards, thus it is not anymore
necessary to modify the DIP switch to realize the erasing of the NAND Flash.
The installation process of the binaries starts by the erasing of the Nand Flash memory by the BIOS.
1 Insert the board GD3, GA3 or INTIP3 into the CPU position of the rack (0 for GD3/GA3, 6,10 or
20 for the INTIP3).
2 Connect the GD3, GA3 or INTIP3 board and the PC Server with a crossed Ethernet cable.
3 Start OmniPCX Enterprise PC Installer V2.26 or higher.
• Select the installation type GD/GA/rGD/GD3/INTIP3 binary in the field Installation
type.

• Select GD3 or INTIP3 in the field Media Gateway board designation in the window
Installation parameters.
• Click on Apply in the window Installation parameters.

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The GD3 binaries (depending on the version) must be present in the directory
/dhs3mgr/"version"/pcmao/boot_res/DHS3bin/downbin/mg3.
The INTIP3 binaries (depending on the version) must be present in the directory
/dhs3mgr/"version"/pcmao/boot_res/DHS3bin/downbin/intip3.
4 Connect a terminal on the V24 port of the GD3, GA3 or INTIP3.
5 Switch on the power on the board GD3, GA3 or INTIP3 then interrupt very quickly the startup to
enter the BIOS menu.
The access to BIOS menu is temporarily delicate. Basically during the first 2 seconds following
the power on, you need to type the commands CTRL + B and CTRL+I (maintain the key
CTRL pressed then type characters B then I quickly in loop).
U-Boot 1.3.0-rc3 (Apr 15 2009 - 16:37:27) 3EH30350AAAI bootl100/000.008
Reset Status: Software Hard, External/Internal Soft, External/Internal Hard
CPU: e300c4, MPC8377, Rev: 21 at 399.999 MHz, CSB: 266 MHz
I2C: ready
DRAM:
DDR DIMM: data bus width is 64 bit without ECC
DDRC ECC mode: OFF
DDR RAM: 256 MB
FLASH: 2 MB <---------------- Press quickly CTRL+B CTRL+I at this step
PCI: Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
00 17 1064 2102 0000 00
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: TSEC0, TSEC1

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6 In the BIOS menu select 3 : Load from Ethernet

Let the installation process complete, without answering the questions. The erasing NAND Flash
memory is automatic, however there is no automatic reboot of the board at the end of the
binaries installation.
7 When the installation is completed connect with login root then type reboot command.
8 At the end of next startup, the menu mgconfig is automatically proposed to configure the
Ethernet parameters.
Welcome to the GD configuration tool
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FW version
mg3_02.68_21Jan10_10h19
---------------------------------------
Board role GD
MAC address 00809F8D004E
1. IP address 192.168.10.10
2. Netmask 255.255.255.224
3. Gateway address 192.168.10.254
4. CS role address 192.168.10.3
5. CS redundancy role address 0.0.0.0
6. Crystal number (Dynamic allocation- Refer mgr)
7. IP QoS menu VLAN disabled
8. BACKUP menu (Not Available)
9. Duplex and speed mode menu auto
10. Download binaries timeout 1200[ms]
11. Passive CS address 0.0.0.0
12. Security and Encryption PROTECT SoftMSM PSKg2
13. Telnet server open
14. Archive log files
15. Allow shell commands usage not allowed
0. Exit

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