This file covers briefly how to flash your Cobalt system.  This process is 
UNSUPPORTED. If you flash your ROM, you may invalidate your warrantee.  If 
your flash fails and you reboot, your system is dead.  You'll need to 
de-solder and re-solder a large number of VERY small pins to bring it back.
No, I will not help you solder.  

Furthermore, the 2.9.x ROMs are (as of Aug 2002) unsupported on older systems,
which means that you can't call us for support.  

It is important to note that RaQ3, RaQ4, and Qube3 use a paged ROM image 
(provided here).  RaQ550 uses a 2 MB flat ROM image.  DO NOT install the flat
image on a paged system, and vice versa.  We also have a 1 MB flat ROM image.
This is for the VERY FEW RaQ550 systems which had teh 1 MB flash (pre-release).

Get the file 'flashtool' from this directory's parent.  It is a static binary 
- don't worry about libraries.  Telnet or serial console into the system in 
question.  Make sure the flashtool binary is executable and both it and the 
rom image are in the current directory.

Use the following command to back up your ROM:
	./flashtool -v -r > backup.rom

Use the following command to reflash your ROM:
	./flashtool -v -w 2.9.36-paged.rom

If it succeeds (it should), you can reboot with the newly flashed ROM.  If it
fails AT ALL - DO NOT REBOOT.  If you get error messages from flashtool, try
it again.  If it fails repeatedly, try burning back the saved backup.rom (you
did save it, right?).  Whatever you do - DO NOT REBOOT.  The ROM is only read
at power-up time, so yu do not want to reboot until you are sure the burn
succeeded.