System Recovery Utility MAG256
System Recovery Utility menu is intended to receive device information, change STB boot loader settings, update software, change video output mode and graphics resolution, reset STB to the factory settings, system recovering and other auxiliary functions. This feature is similar to
MAG-250/254/270 Bootloader menu.
It is not recommended to make changes to System Recovery Utility menu without properly understanding its settings and consequences of changing them.
Brining up System Recovery Utility menu
- Power off (unplug the power supply) STB.
- Push and hold Menu button on RC (it should be directed stright to STB).
- Still holdering Menu button power STB on (plug in power supply).
- Wait for (~10 seconds) System Recovery Utility menu.
- Release Menu button.
Menu button on SRC-4513 (slim)
Setting up video output mode and graphics display resolution
To correctly display video signal on TV after STB software loaded, it is possible to set properly video output parameters at boot stage. System Restore Utility menu contains the following settings:
- TV System - STB video output mode;
- Grafic Resolution - resolution of the STB video output window.
Description of these parameters is provided in section
Video Output Mode and Graphic Resolution.
Software version and device information
- Enter System Recovery Utility menu.
- Choose Device information - by pressing OK on RC:
- Vendor - Manufactory identifier.
- Model - STB model identifier.
- HardwareVersion - Version of system board.
- Serial Number - Serial number of device (STB).
- MAC address - Physical address of network interface.
- BootLoader version - BootLoader version (if second bootloader is on, then you will see second bootloader version).
- Image version number - version of firmware;
- Image date - Date and Time of firmware version creation.
- Image description - the additional discription to the firmware version.
- Userfs Image version - the version of User settings (UserFS - the part of image file);
- Save Info to USB - saving data of window "Device Information" to USB drive (you must first create folder mag256 on the root of the USB drive and connect USB drive to STB).
Be sure that USB-drive file system is FAT32.
Selecting boot mode NAND1 / NAND2 / DHCP
- Enter System Recovery Utility menu.
- Select Boot Mode and by pressing the right on RC set the boot mode:
- DHCP - download by script that STB requests from the DHCP server. This option can be used for initial download or for software update. The DHCP server must be configured properly. For a detailed description, see "DHCP server, configuration, loading basic software, firmware update";
- NAND 1 or NAND2 - banks of internal non-volatile memory of STB that used to store the firmware. The bootloader will use that copy of the firmware which is specified in this setting.
- Select Exit and Reboot, сonfirm with Yes.
Note. If instead of Exit and Reboot you pressed Exit on RC, press Menu on RC to return to main utility menu, .
- The boot mode (NAND or DHCP) and the status of load process are indicated on the TV screen.
If the software is successfully downloaded, the user interface of the embedded or external portal should be displayed on the TV screen (depending on the settings of the STB software).
1. Using two memory banks (NAND1 and NAND2) improves reliability of the software update process. If the operation fails, you can load STB firmware from the alternative bank.
2. After successful STB updating the value of active bank (from which to boot) changes to the opposite one.
Selecting the software update mode
- Enter System Recovery Utility menu.
- Select Upgrade Tools and by pressing the right on RC set the update mode:
- Using USB - for updating will be used the firmware version (image) from the USB-drive connected to the STB. For a description see Firmware update with USB-drive.
- Using multicast - for updating will be used the firmware version (image) that transfered to STB from PC by Multicast broadcasting. For a description see Multicast update.
- Using static ip and tftp - for updating will be used the firmware version (image) that transfered to STB from the TFTP server.
- Using dhcp - loading the image by the script, which STB requests from the DHCP server. See DHCP server, configuration, loading basic software, firmware update.
- The status of the updating process is indicated on the TV screen.
- After a successful software update, the STB will automatically reboot.
If the update is unsuccessful, check the boot mode settings or use a different update type.
Reset to factory settings from System Recovery Utility menu
- Enter System Recovery Utility menu;
- Select Default Settings.
- In the window «Resetting to defaults» select Yes.
- At the bottom of the window, information about the reset operation performed should be displayed.
- Go to the upper menu level by Exit.
- Select Exit and Reboot, сonfirm with Yes.
Note. If instead of Exit and Reboot you pressed Exit on RC, press Menu on RC to return to main utility menu.
- STB will automatically reboot.
After resetting STB to the factory the environment variables including the bootloader settings are set to the initial value.