Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:34:23 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firmware update on Blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091204163423.GA52937@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041701530.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> References: <20091204145230.GA52366@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091204150929.GA52455@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041624160.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091204153353.GA52633@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041701530.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
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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? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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