PERC 4e Di firmware 522a

[Paul M. Dyer]

Thanks.   It works better now.   Where do I get dell-bmcflash?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael E Brown" <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
To: "Paul M. Dyer" <pmdyer at ctgcentral2.com>
Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:57:06 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: PERC 4e Di firmware 522a

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Paul M. Dyer wrote:
> Thanks for the info.   I got along further.   It was necessary to delete everything in /var/spool/up2date and redo the wget commands.   All looked well until update_firmware, which had some python errors.   Please advise.

The errors are fine. The next version (to be released in the next couple
days) supresses these messages. (That is why it says "caught and
ignored."

You should have dell-bmcflash installed, which would (should?) get rid
of those errors.

The "update_firmware" command wont actually (by design) update any
firmware unless you pass "--yes".

I've been doing some work on the utilities lately to start making them a
bit more user-friendly.
--
Michael


> 
> [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# update_firmware
> 
> Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> \       Checking: ware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d_version_a09/package.iniTraceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/repository.py", line 41, in makePackage
>     module = __import__(pymod, globals(),  locals(), [])
> ImportError: No module named dell_bmc.dell_bmc
>  Exception caught and ignored.
> -       Checking: ware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d_version_a09/package.iniTraceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/repository.py", line 41, in makePackage
>     module = __import__(pymod, globals(),  locals(), [])
> ImportError: No module named dell_bmc.dell_bmc
>  Exception caught and ignored.
> 
> Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d) - a06
>         No update found
> Checking pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016d) - 522a
>         Found Update: pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016d) - 522d
> 
> Found out of date packages.
> 
> 
> Please run the program with the '--yes' switch to enable BIOS update.
>    UPDATE NOT COMPLETED!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael E Brown" <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
> To: "Paul M. Dyer" <pmdyer at ctgcentral2.com>
> Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:33:31 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: Re: PERC 4e Di firmware 522a
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:25:21PM -0500, Paul M. Dyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Firmware version 522A show out of date on OMSA.   I installed the fireware repo, but I get no updates required.   Is this supported for my system?
> 
> Just tested 522D on one of my systems and it works fine for me.
> 
> > 
> > PE-2850
> > PERC 4e/Di
> > 
> > Below is the install session.   Sorry if this is too much detail.
> 
> You missed this:
> 
> # up2date --solvedeps=$(bootstrap_firmware -u)
> 
> This bootstraps the correct package set onto your system. Until you do
> this, it wont know the RPM mapping to PCI devices.
> --
> Michael
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Paul Dyer
> > 
> > 
> > [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> > Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com//repo/firmware/RPM-GPG-KEY-fwupdate
> >     Importing key into RPM.
> > Installing dell-firmware-repository-1-2.noarch.rpm
> > Done!
> > [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# up2date -u
> > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev_id=0x016D&osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=up2date
> > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x016d/rh40
> > http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386
> > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/el4/i386
> > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
> > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh40
> > http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/mirrors.pl?dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
> > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-hw-specific-repository...
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-unsupported-repository...
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-hw-indep-repository...
> > 
> > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-firmware-repository...
> > 
> > Fetching rpm headers...
> > 
> > Name                                    Version        Rel     
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > All packages are currently up to date
> > 
> > 
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