BMC firmware update on PE2950 failed

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:41:24PM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > The OpenIPMI driver is currently loaded. Please unload the driver before
> > executing.
> 
> ...
> 
> > I have stopped the dsm_sa_ipmi service manually but the same message
> > occurs. It seems the update process automatically starts the IPMI drivers.

  dsm_sa_ipmi is not openipmi.

> 
> ...
> 
> > Did I missed something or is it a bug?


stop openipmi.


> 
> For me, the update scripts often needed manual tweaking, so just let it 
> decompress then interrupt the .BIN and look at the script. Usually it's 
> trivial to spot where it fails, simly edit it out and re-run.

In this specific case: *EXCEEDINGLY* bad advice. This would be a really
cool new way to brick your box.

--
Michael