Poweredge SC440 - latest bios

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

Ok, for reference...

The SC440-010500.BIN file is a shell script that contains an embedded
Linux application, called 'flash'.

'flash' contains a gzipped object inside it (look for telltale hex code
1f 8b 08 for the start).  This can be unzipped into another object.

This last object contains the $RBU object we're looking for.  While I
can find the start of these objects, I don't know the length of them
(the $RBU object probably includes a length field we could key off, I
need to find out more about the format of this).

It would be easiest if we could get the 'flash' application to take a
'-extracthdrfile' option, but it doesn't appear to have such at the
moment.  We'll have to track down the author of this application inside
Dell to see about this.

--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of
Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:39 PM
To: budi at telegraafnet.nl; jlewis at johnlewis.ie
Cc: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Poweredge SC440 - latest bios

The SC440 BIOS images use yet another packaging format which
firmware-addon-dell doesn't know how to extract at the moment.  Looking
at it, it's a shell script that wraps a Linux executable app that
appears to use the RBU mechanism, but does not contain (at least not
identifiable as such) the standard RBU payload.  We'll have to figure
out from whence these came and then figure out how to extract the
bios.hdr file (the RBU payload).

Until then, you can try to simply use the packages posted on
support.dell.com, without using firmware-tools.

Thanks,
Matt

--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of Budi
Jonkhart
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 3:37 AM
To: John Lewis
Cc: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: Poweredge SC440 - latest bios

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John Lewis wrote:

> Or indeed if somebody could tell me how to extract the hdr file from
> the .bin file on the standard Dell website, that would be good either.

If I'm not mistaken, you can simply execute the binary with the
--extract option.

kind regards,
Budi Jonkhart


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