Newbie - installed firmware_tools on CentOS 5 x86_64 but can't get bootstrap_firmware command to work

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:31:35PM -0500, Eric Raskin wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
> I've just installed the firmware_addon_tools packages and the repository
> according to the instructions at Dell Repository/firmware Wiki.  When I
> type the bootstrap_firmware command, I get:
> 
> [root at merge01 ~]# bootstrap_firmware
> Config Error: Plugin "firmware_addon_dell.extract_bios" cannot be found.
> 
> I looked at the /usr/sbin/bootstrap_firmware command and I saw that it
> was adding the python site-packages directory.  Going out there, I see
> that firmwaretools and firmware_addon_dell directories are there.  The
> extract_bios.py* files are in the firmware_addon_dell directory.
> 
> What is broken and how do I fix it?
> 
> TIA
> 
>    Eric 
> 
> PS.  Sorry if I'm posting to the wrong newsgroup.  Please feel free to
> redirect me.

You got the right newsgroup. Thanks for the feedback.

It turns out I did a major upgrade of firmware-tools and all associated
components today. There were a few hours there where the repository was
inconsistent (not everything had been upgraded).

It should all be working now if you retry.
--
Michael