Unable to burne mega bootloader with mega

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Hi

I'm trying to burn a new bootloader to my arduino mega with my other arduino mega.

I have hoocked the megas up with power, gnd, pin 50 to 50, pin 51 to 51, pin 52 to 52 and pin 53 to 53

Then i upload the ISP sketch to the working arduino no problem. Then I click burn bootloader and almost nothing happens. I get no communication over the uart and then i get the error:

Arduino: 1.5.5 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino Mega or Mega 2560, ATmega2560 (Mega 2560)"

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
processing.app.debug.RunnerException
	at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.burnBootloader(SerialUploader.java:309)
	at processing.app.Editor$47.run(Editor.java:2571)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:715)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:82)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:676)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:674)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:86)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:685)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: processing.app.debug.RunnerException: Problem uploading to board.  See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload for suggestions.
	at cc.arduino.packages.Uploader.executeUploadCommand(Uploader.java:113)
	at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.burnBootloader(SerialUploader.java:302)
	... 15 more

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What to do? Or what am i doing wrong?

/Peter

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programmer is not responding.

Seems like you can upload fine, but then Arduino IDE doesn't recognize the programmer. Did you check the option: use arduino as ISP? And also check again the board and finally the serial com, choose the programmer Arduino.

3

Use Nick Gammon's bootloader sketch.
D10 of master controls Reset of slave. Or maybe it's just SS pin of master.