BCM400 to BCM450 upgrade problem

[salio2010]

Good day!
I have Upgrade Kit from BCM400 rel.4 to BCM450 (BFT,CIF,pre-loaded HDD with 5.0). But have such problem after installing, entering keycode and first loading of BCM450. It does not rise after first restart or turn off, when I tried to set lastest patches, situation was the same. Only during first loading I was might to enter EM, enter upgrade keycode and change other settings. After next restart BCM or rotary restarting all the time or restarting very slowly (1,5-2hours). After this reload I lost network connection to OEM port and no password is suitable in Hyper Terminal connection. After I have load BCM450 r.5.0 image on HDD, the situation repeated again and again. I thought, it is mistake with the keycode, because in Element Manager and KRS was noticed bcm 450rel.06. And tried to load HDD image BCM450 rel.6.0. The result is the same. What is the reason of problem?

 

[salio2010]

Nobody has ideas?

 

[pkellow]

You'll need to get a serial connection into the BCM and use something like hyperterminal (you can install hyperterminal, and install it on windows 7) or try putty to it during the reboot. I've definately had a serial interface into a 450 before. Check the docs for the cable specs etc. On a 450 the speed of the hyperterminal session is one of the higher ones, cannot recall which one.

You can test the serial cable on a bcm200/400, however the speed will be 9600 (much lower than the 450).

Once connected, you can observe what happens.

The account/password will be nnadmin / "default password for BCM" unless you've changed it.

I recall seeing a 450 suggest 450r1 in the boot sequence, so there may be a link between the boot and the version it expects to see....I'm just not sure. Officially you MUST only restore the appropriate .TIB file, so on a 450r5 you MUST only restore the 450r5 image file. So if you DOA (dead on arrival) the BCM, you'd need to restore the HDD to a 450r5 (or whatever it shipped with originally). That said, I've restored 450r1 & 450r5 & 450r6 and had these all working in what was originally a 450r1. However on the 50's I took two days to recover some 50s.

regards
paul

 

[pkellow]

Also check the logs for Acronis to ensure the restore was successful. Hope this helps.