firmware update on Blade 1500

[Gheorghe Ardelean]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:13:42PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>> maybe I can copy the file somewhere under /boot/kernel
>>>>> and pretend it's a kernel, and try to boot it?
>>>>
>>>> I am always netbooting the firmware file. Until now it worked for me (from
>>>> Ultra Sparc 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 and to Blade100).
>>>> I suppose it works also for Blade1500 but I never did it.
>>>> Maybe you give it a try.
>>>>
>>>> Just use your other FreeBSD machines as rarp + tftp server to deviler the
>>>> file. The file should be renamed (or linked) to it's hex IP equivalent.
>>>> tcpdump is your friend here!
>>>
>>> sorry, could you please elaborate or give a link, I'm not familiar with
>>> this. What's rarp? tftp? IP equivalent?
>>>
>>> maybe you got an example from your old netbooting?
>>
>> please add to /etc/rc.conf
>> inetd_enable="YES"
>> than edit /etc/inetd.conf and enable tftp (there are 2 entries in that
>> file one for IPv4 and one for IPv6) after that /etc/rc.d/inetd start
>>
>> write down the MAC of your Blade1500 and add an entry to /etc/ethers
>> something like:
>>
>> xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc   blade1500
>>
>> and add a line to /etc/hosts containing the mapping of the blade1500
>> hostname (see ethers) to ir's IP. Eg:
>>
>> 192.168.1.13		blade1500
>>
>> after this is done start the RARP daemon. I am always doing it like this:
>>
>> rarpd -adfsv
>
> I get this error:
>
> # rarpd -adfsv
> /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory
> #
>
> Shall I rebuild the kernel with bpf enabled?

Yes! Are you using a custom kernel? (bpf is in GENERIC)

Regards,

Gheorghe.