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54 Getting Started with PowerPC Open Firmware
7. If you responded with a Y in step 4, a probe for a bootable
floppy disk is performed. If no floppy disk is present or if no
floppy drive is attached, the following prompt appears:
No Floppy Drive/Disk Found
Search SCSI Bus? (Y/N)
8. To bypass a SCSI bus search and return to the main Update
The Firmware menu, enter N and press <ENTER>.
9. To search the SCSI Bus, enter Y and press <ENTER>.
The SCSI bus search looks for devices with removable,
writable media installed and chooses the first one found as
the selected device. If the SCSI search mode is inadvertently
entered, press the escape key, <ESC> to break out and return
to the main Update The Firmware menu.
Once a disk or tape containing the bootable image is located,
the new firmware image is loaded into RAM and verified.
During this process the following messages are displayed:
Loading From Floppy Drive /pci/ccc/ddd (or “Loading From
SCSI Device /pci/ccc/ddd”)
Validating Firmware Image ...
After validation is complete, the results are displayed as one
of the following:
Not A Valid Load Image
10. Enter an N to bypass the process and return to the Update
the Firmware menu.
If the image is not valid, the update process is terminated.
11. Press the <ESC> key or click the right mouse button to return
to the main Update the Firmware menu.
or
Ready To Update ROM Update Process Can Take Several Minutes
To Complete
Proceed? (Y/N)










