I have created a MS-DOS 2.88MB boot image that can be mounted to an iDRAC6 or DRAC5 as Virtual Floppy (you could also make a USB Flash Drive). I us it for out of band firmware updates. It is much faster than the Dell Linux packages and more reliable.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Small Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:55 AM To: Arno van der Veen; [email protected] Subject: Re: Perc6/i does not want to upgrade firmware. suggestions? On 31/10/10 13:09, Arno van der Veen wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded all firmware manually as written earlier, but I really can't > get the perc6/i upgraded in it's firmware.. :-( > Don't use Dell's buggy, overly-complex scripts (self-extracting shell scripts, which then install RPMs - makes me feel nauseous just thinking about the concept - what do you think this is? Microsoft Windows?) - get the file out of them, and run the update manually instead using megactl? Cheers, Tim. p.s. If anyone from Dell happens to be reading - if you do insist on these nauseating byzantine scripts, don't assume /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash cos it often isn't.... -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
