firmware update on Blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:52:27PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:53:43PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> > 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:
> > >>
> > >>>> 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
> > >>
> > >> In an other terminal you can run tcpdump to see the request from the
> > >> blade1500 and if you have the correct file name.
> > >> In this case (IP:192.168.1.13) the file in /tftpboot should be named
> > >> COA8010D or a symbolic link to the actual firmware file.
> > >>
> > >> Now on the serial console of the Blade1500 say 'boot net' and that's it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Gheorghe, just to clarify:
> > >
> > > 1. Do both boxes need to be on the same local net?
> > > I cannot boot across rooters, can I?
> > > Can I just connect the two boxes in question directly
> > > with an ethernet cable?
> > >
> > > 2. I understand I need to run inetd and rarpd on the box with
> > > the boot file, or in this case a firmware file. Is that so?
> > 
> > I am always making the files in /tftpboot rx for world.
> > chmod 755 /tftpboot/firmware_file should do it
> > I do not recall now why but IIRC it was written somewhere.
> 
> success!!
> 
> don't know what went wrong in my first attempt.
> I think it worked after I wrote the whole
> domain name in /etc/hosts:
> 
> 137.222.184.100		blade1500.men.bris.ac.uk
> 
> Anyway, I moved from 2004 to 2009 firmware!
> 
> This was "red" blade 1500.
> 
> I've two more "silver" blade 1500. Will try to
> update the firmware on those as well.
> 
> Will report.

yes, successfully updated both 1500 silver blades to 4.30.3 firmware.

thanks again

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