> The firmware image has a CRAMFS at some offset. You can dd this off and > unpack it to get the firmware contents. Again, not as necessary with a > source release.
It's still useful to have these files available though, for example to see some of the code that has been removed from the source release like the racadm util commands. If anyone is interested I have some code which will extract the .d5 firmware files into their separate blocks. Two of these blocks are JFFS2 filesystems, one is the Linux kernel with the aforementioned CRAMFS image, and two appear to be different parts of the bootloader. > This site used to host a bunch of MIPS/Linux binaries which would run on > the DRAC, though I'm not sure where they've gone to. > > http://www.paralogos.com/mipslinux/ > > There appear to be more resources these days. This looks promising: > > ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/RPMS/ I'll have to check it out. I'm surprised my code ran at all as I expected problems with differing versions of the C library. Unfortunately any networking code fails with "FATAL: kernel too old" because all my stuff is running 2.6 but the DRAC runs 2.4. I'm not having much luck downgrading my cross compiler to support kernel 2.4, so it might end up back as a waiting game hoping that Dell will release the firmware tools so that we can try out a 2.6 kernel instead. (I wonder whether you can boot the DRAC over the network...?) Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
