I've created boot FreeDOS image with ESM firmware update and used memdisk to start that over PXE. I can update firmware on any of my PE1750's (without floppy), but unfortunately the one server from my original mail is still broken. smflsh2.exe cannot find current version of any of ESM components.
Kaerka, I will be lazy and I will ask. Is ESM separate component on motherboard or you needed to replace whole mobo? On which type of server you had this issue? On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:55:38AM -0500, Kaerka Phillips wrote: > I've done it with the DOS boot disks that Dell used to provide the firmware > updates, even when the RHEL server couldn't communicate to it. Cannot do > this on modern servers though due to no diskette drive, but on 2650's up to > 2850's and other similar models of the same generation, it should work. > There was one case where this didn't work though, and the esm had to be > replaced. > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:51:37PM -0500, Kaerka Phillips wrote: > > > I've had this issue before with PE1750, PE1850's and a few 2850's. Most > > of > > > the time, reapplying the ESM/BMC firmware fixes it, but in one case, I > > think > > > we had to replace the ESM and riser card (I think I'm remembering this > > > correctly). > > > > The problem is that in current state I don't have IPMI communication > > from within the system to mobo. To update ESM firmware I need to have > > working /dev/ipmi0. Is there any way to update ESM firmware without > > working IPMI device? > > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have unknown 'ESM Version' as shown below, and when server is booting > > > > during POST screen it's written: > > > > > > > > Embedded server management is not present > > > > > > > > > > > > but it is present, and I cannot communicate with it. Is there any way > > to > > > > reset it or is it possible that ESM/BMC got broken even if DRAC is > > working? > > > > I already tried to unplug the server from power and wait 30 seconds. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to replace it if I have spare servers which > > > > are in our broken servers pool, but have good mobo? > > > > > > > > > > > > # racadm -r 192.168.234.236 -u root -p calvin getsysinfo > > > > > > > > RAC Information: > > > > RAC Date/Time = DSU+01:50:57 > > > > Firmware Version = 3.38 (Build 12.14) > > > > Firmware Updated = DSU+00:16:09 > > > > Hardware Version = A04 > > > > Current IP Address = 192.168.50.181 > > > > Current IP Gateway = 192.168.50.1 > > > > Current IP Netmask = 255.255.255.0 > > > > DHCP enabled = FALSE > > > > Current DNS Server 1 = 192.168.0.5 > > > > Current DNS Server 2 = 192.168.0.6 > > > > DNS Servers from DHCP = FALSE > > > > PCMCIA Card Info = N/A > > > > > > > > System Information: > > > > System ID = > > > > System Model = > > > > BIOS Version = > > > > Asset Tag = > > > > Service Tag = > > > > Hostname = > > > > OS name = > > > > ESM Version = Unknown > > > > > > > > Watchdog Information: > > > > Recovery Action = No Action > > > > Present countdown value = 0 > > > > Initial countdown value = 0 > > > > > > > > RAC Firmware Status Flags: > > > > Global Reset Pending Flag = 0 -- best regards q# _______________________________________________ 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
