Quanta LY6 not responding on console after ONL installation (SPI reflash bootloader?)

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thaulow

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Hello,

I saw that my Quanta LY6 baremetall X86 switch had support for OpenNetworkLinux, so I transfered the binary over to ONIE and installed it. When the installation script was done and said rebooting now, nothing happened and the console seemed dead. After some time I rebooted the switch and still no output on the console at all.

I suspect the bootloader is damaged, and wonder if someone knows if Quanta has some pins to reset the switch and get into a recovery bootloader or if I need to flash the ROM?

The switch is supposedly running Coreboot, and since I have a second LY6 already running ONL I should in theory be able to copy the bootloader files here and transfer to the bricked switch. However what kind of device would I need to flash it, and how would I go about identifying the correct SPI interface (I assume this is what I need?)

Thanks in advance!