FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA
J. Martin Petersen
jmp.lists at alvorlig.dk
Sun Dec 10 05:53:23 PST 2006
Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:47:21AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>> Upgrading proved to be a bit of a pain because the
>> boxes don't have CDROM or floppy drives, and the HP firmware updater
>> download is rather weird, but once it was updated (using a USB floppy
>> drive) all was happiness.
>> Oddly, the i386 loader had no problem at all...
I think we tried both without success, but I am not 100% sure.
> Here is how I update the bios on DL140. Create a DOS boot disk (I usual
> use 6.22), put a ramdisk driver on it and whatever you need to flash
> the bios. Then make an image of the disk and load it into your pxe
> server. Boot via PXE said floppy image, copy BIOS flash utils and
> firmware to ramdisk. Then run software from there. If you don't use
> the ram disk, I have seen it fail often.
We created a bootable USB stick with each of the BIOS'es and used that
to flash with. Very easy and worked like a charm, once we found a
Windows-"enabled" laptop.
What kind of disk performance are you seeing from the disks hooked up to
the mpt-controller? We are seeing disk transfers around 6MB/sec, which
seems very slow, but I do not know how to diagnose it.
Martin
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