firmware update on Blade 1500
Anton Shterenlikht
mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Dec 4 15:34:06 UTC 2009
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?
many thanks
anton
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