I have played with PXEing the HP firmware disk in the past, but gave up because
it seems they change the way it works every release.
In case it helps, here's some stuff I learned, though it may all be outdated
(based for 8.70).
- recent memdisk supports ISO's, so you could create a memdisk image and PXE
that
- to make the updates run unattended, replace /mnt/cdrom/_autorun/bootar with
the following:
<add an IP somehow; I use `ip a a 192.168.254.101/24 dev eth0` (I haven't
been able to figure out DHCP in the disk yet)>
cd /mnt/cdrom/compaq/swpackages/
./hpsum /use_latest /use_web /romonly /inputfile /proc/self/fd/0
<<<'useproxyserver = 192.168.254.246:3128' /reboot /express_install
touch /tmp/__bootrun_complete__ # this makes the bootscripts reboot
In case you're obsessive like me, here's how to strip down the ISO (since you
have to rebuild it anyways to add the above):
[Note this creates a "direct" image, not a "memdisk" image]
ISO=${1:-}/export/iso/HPFWUP870idcrev2-1.iso
DESTDIR=/export/iso/HP-firmware
TMP=`mktemp -d`
mkdir -pv $TMP/mnt/cdrom/_autorun/
mount -oloop $ISO $TMP/mnt/cdrom
command cp -v $TMP/mnt/cdrom/system/vmlinuz $DESTDIR/
zcat $TMP/mnt/cdrom/system/initrd.img >$DESTDIR/initrd.img
(cd $TMP; find mnt/cdrom/{_autorun,compaq} -regextype posix-egrep ! -iregex
'.*(\.(exe|dll|jpg|png|htm|qm)|(HTMLFILES|CDBrowser).*|bootar|autorun_linux)'
|cpio -covAO $DESTDIR/initrd.img)
umount $TMP/mnt/cdrom
ln -s /usr/local/bin/hpfw.sh $TMP/mnt/cdrom/_autorun/bootar # this is the above
script
(cd $TMP; cpio -cLovAO $DESTDIR/initrd.img <<<mnt/cdrom/_autorun/bootar)
rm -rf $TMP
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Kang
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 6:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cobbler PXE with HP firmware dvd 9.30
Hi,
I'm trying to get cobbler to provision an HP firmware dvd. I've seen the
example shown on the github wiki but if it is possible to use NFS to do a PXE
boot to the share how much it is not possible to 'cobbler import' on a loopback
mounted iso of the dvd? or add the iso with 'cobbler image'. Thanks in
advance. Also asking around I've found that the kernel the HP dvd is based off
of is SLES 11.
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Daniel S Kang
Gawker Media
m: (646)783-8835
im: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
aim: fookkoof
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