Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:44:04 +0100 (CET) From: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firmware update on Blade 1500 Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041741380.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091204163423.GA52937@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> 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> <20091204163423.GA52937@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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.
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