Re: Is it possible to update OBP while running Debian?
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:37:00PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
Hello,
just adding for the archives:
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:00:28 +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote:
I just upgraded OBP on my Ultra 5 last week (needed to update OBP to
recognize
a 360 MHz cpu instead of the original 270 MHz cpu). A friend of mine had
set up
a rarp and tftp server, and I could just 'boot net' the firmware image to
flash
it. I'm sorry I can't help you with setting up rarp/tftp servers.
You probably can also use dhcp boot with:
{0} ok boot net:dhcp
On the dhcp server set the bootfile and server parameters to the tftp server
containing the flash-update image.
Worked like a charm here for a Sun Enterprise 450.
Greetings
Hermann
My Ultra/1 updated very nicely this way but the firmware for my Netra
t1/105 isn't bootable apparently, and it only comes in a shell script.
So I want to install Solaris on the Netra if the esp driver can work in
linux again so I can move what runs on the Netra now to the Ultra/1.
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Re: Is it possible to update OBP while running Debian?
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:00:28 +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote:
I just upgraded OBP on my Ultra 5 last week (needed to update OBP to
recognize
a 360 MHz cpu instead of the original 270 MHz cpu). A friend of mine had set
up
a rarp and tftp server, and I could just 'boot net' the firmware image to
flash
it. I'm sorry I can't help you with setting up rarp/tftp servers.
You probably can also use dhcp boot with:
{0} ok boot net:dhcp
On the dhcp server set the bootfile and server parameters to the tftp server
containing the flash-update image.
Worked like a charm here for a Sun Enterprise 450.
Greetings
Hermann
Since we are on the subject. Is it possible to upgrade OBP from linux rather
than solaris? All of my machines are surplus and I ended up going exclusively
debian (yay!) on them. I haven't found any good documentation on if this is
even possible.
Thanks
Eric
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Re: Is it possible to update OBP while running Debian?
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:15:39AM -0400, Eric Nichols wrote:
You probably can also use dhcp boot with:
{0} ok boot net:dhcp
On the dhcp server set the bootfile and server parameters to the tftp server
containing the flash-update image.
Worked like a charm here for a Sun Enterprise 450.
Greetings
Hermann
Since we are on the subject. Is it possible to upgrade OBP from linux rather
than solaris? All of my machines are surplus and I ended up going exclusively
Rarp/dhcp net booting uses no solaris - but also no linux ;-)
Under solaris for some kind of sparc machines you can get a flash utility
which works from a running Solaris OS. So at least for that systems, it
should be theoretical possible to upgrade OBP from linux, too.
But there are probably a lot of people with better knowledge about that stuff
in the solaris/opensolaris communities.
Hermann
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Re: Is it possible to update OBP while running Debian?
Hi, I did the OBP update on my Ultra-2 from the OK prompt, which lets me guess, that it doesn't matter, wether you started on Solaris or debian. Documentation for the process is under: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/artices/openboot_sparc.html and on http://sunsolve.sun.com/...? you find Document 104169-08, which describes perfectly the whole process. Download OBP_3.25.0, POST_3.3.8 which to my understanding are the last versions at least for Ultra-x machines. Good luck, Norbert -- Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Gerhards Ingenieurbüro Gerhards Laurentiusstr. 16 - 20 52072 Aachen Deutschland Tel. +49-241-705 08-14 Fax +49-241-705 08-99 mobil +49-172-240 66 36 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL www.ib-gerhards.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
