BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8/9/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:04:26AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> > > So I was out for a week and I'm woefully behind on email... :(
> > >
> > > First things first, I promised somebody about three months ago that I would have perc5/sas5 flash utilities in "a couple weeks". Well, I am just putting the finishing touches on this today. I have a few perc5 packages out there today which I published a couple days ago, with the rest (sas5) to come later today. (official announcement to follow)
> > >
> > > The BMC turned out to be a lot nastier than I thought. I'm working on it, but I'm not going to even attempt an ETA because I know I'll just miss it.
> > > --
> >
> > Even though you are behind... thanks for your help. All I need now are
> > the various diagnostic tools in an rpm format.. and I will have a
> > bootable centos-5 cdrom with most of the system and pci firmware
> > images that you have up and ready for you.
>
> Sweet. I suppose you saw Matt's blog post and wiki page for using
> revisor to do this and that is what you are doing, right?
>

Actually I started with revisor... got frustrated of trying to get it
to work on EL-5 and went for the livecd solution that was listed in
the OMSA. It isnt as user friendly as revisor.. but trying to get all
the bits working was running up an internal deadline.

> Couple more notes:
>
> 1) I've added system names for almost all of the bios images. This means
> that the rpms should be named something like
> "system_bios_PowerEdge_2800...", rather than
> "system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x2468...", which should be much more
> user-friendly.
>

Yeah this caused some problems with livecd in the database.. it would
say that package XYZ was not there even though it was.. it came down
to some issues with conflicts.


> 2) firmware-addon-dell 1.4.4 should finish building in about an hour or
> so that fixes a typo that kept actual bios flash from occurring.
>

Ahh.. well I needed to add some documentation to the items to get it
more user friendly. I decided to use xfce as the desktop as it cut
down the disk space needed. I got all the images I could get livecd to
recognize to install in 570 MB image

> 3) all of the packages (aside from #2, above) are already posted
>
> 4) payload packages are building/extracting now and should be up in the
> firmware repo within an hour or so.
>
> Anybody feeling adventurous is encouraged to try them out. I've tested
> on two machines with three different cards (perc4, and two variations on
> perc5). I dont have sas5 to test with, so I can only do dry runs, but
> the commands use the same format and args, so I am pretty confident that
> it will work ok.
>

Will let you know today. Will put the images up somewhere they can be
snarfed without killing my network (1 cd for image, 1 cd for
.src.rpms). Like I said.. I just need the diagnostic packages in rpm
format and I am in my happy place :).


> --
> Michael
>


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