BMC firmware update on PE2950 failed

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Thu Apr 12 16:10:33 CDT 2007


> > 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.

I didn't mean to override safety checks, simply to fix script 
bugs/incompatibilities. It's not like those things are foolproof. Usually 
they fail because of something stupid, like a device file that's missing on 
CentOS, non-Dell hardware (for a tape drive update from non-Dell machine) 
etc.

Cheers, Kuba



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