HOWTO - Firmware updates on debian installed servers per liveCD

[Christian Placzek]

I couldn't find this whitepaper. Using your link ends up with this message;

The page you requested may no longer exist on Dell.com

Also using google are not successful finding this document.

Do you have a copy of this  document? I'm interested in this solution.
 

Regards

Kris



Kent_Sparling at dell.com wrote:
> There is also a Whitepaper available documenting how to leverage the
> Dell System Build and Update Utility DVD in combination with the SUU to
> create a bootable CD/DVD for firmware updates.
>
> The paper can be found here:
>
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/single_media_integration_
> of_systems_build_update_utility_firmware_repository.pdf
>
> Regards,
>
> Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Christian Placzek
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: HOWTO - Firmware updates on debian installed servers per liveCD
>
> The situation:
>
> You love debian running on Dell Servers and want to perform firmware 
> updates to this servers. Dell provides an update DVD (SUU) for most of 
> there servers. But this DVD won't run on a debian installation.
>
> You are able to run some firmware updates with the single files directly
>
> from debian and some with a trick. (Hint: stop the 'dsm_sa_ipmi' service
>
> manually once before starting the update program and a second time 
> before actually updating using 'screen')
>
> But e. g. the mainboard bios update fails on a PE2970.
>
> So you have to boot in an OS supported by Dell. One liveCD/DVD which 
> fulfill this prerequisite is the located at
>
> http://ait.web.psi.ch/services/linux/guides/system/livecd/download.html
>
> There is a liveDVD based on RHEL 5.1. I have used the i386 version. 
> Download the DVD because this one is the only one which contains the 
> libstd++.so.5 (be precise the package compat-libstdc++-33). This lib is 
> neccessary for running the 'suu' application.
>
> I downloaded the SUU-ISO-image under debian and stored it locally 
> because our server don't have two DVD's. So I can mount the 
> SUU-ISO-image per loop device after booting the liveDVD.
>
> Burn the liveDVD and boot it ('linux screen=1024x768' if you are using a
>
> KVM). It is possible to boot the image using the virtual media of the 
> DRAC module also. In this case update the firmware of the DRAC module 
> per web interface before you run SUU. If not the DRAC firmware will be 
> updated per SUU. Then the server will hang because the connection to the
>
> virtual media get lost after the firmware of the DRAC module is applied.
>
> This is no problem at all. Simply reboot the server after the web 
> interface of the DRAC is available again. But avoiding one reboot could 
> save some time if you are updating several servers ;-)
>
> One caveat is the behavior of the virtual media: sometimes the virtual 
> media get disconnected. I have solved this problem flashing the DRAC5 
> module twice with the same version (v. 1.33).
>
> Have fun
>
> Kris
>
> PS: hope you understand my english ;-)
>
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