firmware update on Blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:52:30PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I've downloaded the latest firmware updates for Blade 1500,
> but looking at their guide, I need to have some
> version of Sun OS running in order to use their binaries.
> Has anybody tried to update firmware on Blades or other
> Sun boxes? Any advice? If I burn the binaries to a CD,
> and try to boot from it, will that work?

no, that didn't work, I get:

	Bad magic number in disk label

	Can't open disk label package

	Can't open boot device

maybe I can copy the file somewhere under /boot/kernel
and pretend it's a kernel, and try to boot it?
 
many thanks
anton

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