RAID firmware update

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Tony Schreiner
> Sent: den 8 mars 2007 17:51
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RAID firmware update
> 
> Howdy
> 
> I'm trying to run
> RAID__FRMW_LX_R126665.BIN
> 
> to update the PERC/4Di firmware on a PE  1750 running Fedora 6
> 
> I'm getting a misleading error:
> RAID_FRMW_LX_R126665.BIN Error: extract(): Unable to create 
> temporary files. Please ensure that there is enough space in 
> the tmp folder.
> 
> 
> but I believe the error is  because of change in the tail command.  
> The script tries to run (in the _extract() function)
> 
> tail +1138 RAID_FRMW_LX_R126665.BIN
> 
> but  this syntax is no longer correct in the current Fedora 
> (i guess it's still ok in RHEL), it needs to be
> 
> tail --lines=+1138 RAID_FRMW_LX_R126665.BIN
> 
> 
> I've seen this extract error in other circumstances (which I 
> can't remember now), and maybe the reason is the same.
> 
> Tony Schreiner
> Boston College
> 
> PS I lost my window to actually apply the update so have not 
> been able to test in full
> 
> 

Does it work to only extract the content from the package?
./packagename.bin --extract /update

If not I belive http://fwupdate.com and the Dell unofficial yum repository has that firmware update. 


If not there is always the Grub + Memdisk + floppy image of update way as well.

Configure grub like this:

title=BIOS UPDATE
	kernel /memdisk
	initrd /BIOS-DISK.IMG

Memdisk is usually located in /usr/lib/syslinux.



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Harald Jensås