From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 4 16:13:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46951106568B for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de) Received: from servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de (servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.238.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044728FC18 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix, from userid 512) id 55D5862093; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:13:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370E562092; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:13:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:13:42 +0100 (CET) From: Gheorghe Ardelean To: Anton Shterenlikht In-Reply-To: <20091204153353.GA52633@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <20091204145230.GA52366@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091204150929.GA52455@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091204153353.GA52633@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firmware update on Blade 1500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:13:45 -0000 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 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. Regards, Gheorghe Ardelean.