update_firmware not working anymore (cont.)

Michael St. Laurent mikes at hartwellcorp.com
Wed Apr 22 16:04:15 CDT 2009


I confirm also (though it's been months since your post).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Patrik Karen
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:19 AM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: update_firmware not working anymore (cont.)
> 
> Confirmed. Running this little hack prior to 'update_firmware --yes'
makes
> all the firmware updates work:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> fwdir=/usr/share/firmware/dell
> for payload_dir in `find $fwdir -type d -name payload`; do
>     cp $payload_dir/* `dirname $payload_dir`
> done
> 
> Otherwise, none of them will work. Are we really the only two people
> affected by this?
> 
> //Patrik
> 
> Bas Gooren wrote:
> > In addition to my last message:
> >
> > (Harddisk firmware, ST3146855SS, update to s528)
> > sasdupie in
> > /usr/share/firmware/dell/dup/dell_dup_componentid_16111_version_a01/
> > --> exactly the same issue, moving the file in the payload dir into
the
> > parent dir, and it works like a charm
> >
> > (BMC firmware, update to version 2.37)
> > bmcie.sh in
> >
>
/usr/share/firmware/dell/dup/system_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b2/dell_dup_compo
ne
> ntid_05814_version_a13
> > --> exactly the same issue, .dat file moved to topdir and it works
like
> > a charm
> >
> > (PERC 5/i firmware, update to 5.2.2-0072)
> > sasdupie in
> >
>
/usr/share/firmware/dell/dup/pci_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0015_subven_0
x1
> 028_subdev_0x1f03_version_a09
> > --> dito
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Ok, so it became quite obvious that either update_firmware is not
> > passing in some parameter which says "the payload is in a folder
called
> > payload", or all of the packages for the PE 2950 are not working?
> >
> > Anyone able to shed some light on this?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Bas
> >
> >
> >
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