On 1/9/23 01:37, Simon Matter wrote:
Just starting and trying to boot off the SPP firmware update ISO image on a USB stick.
I made the stick with:
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Why create an MS-DOS filesystem on the stick which gets immediately overwritten in the next step?
I think the idea is to get that first 4MB set up for booting, as the dd skips that space.
No, what you've set is a dd block size of 4MB.
# dd bs=4M if=P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress
Is this what HPE says how to create the stick? If yes then you may ask HPE how to get it to work.
HP gives no instructions. At least I can't find it on the support pages. I do have a support account.
You should be able to simply do
dd if=P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso of=/dev/sdb
of even simpler
cat P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso > /dev/sdb
If that's not working I don't know what to do else.
Otherwise you could search for an USB disk image instead of an ISO image, I don't know if HPE provides such a thing.
BTW, if this server has an HPE ILO, you can upgrade firmware directly from there.
Regards, Simon
You should just 'know' how to build a bootable device from a 9GB iso image.
The usb drive is 16GB and the iso is 9GB.
seem to boot from it and go into auto install of firmware then died with
starting initrd...
warning!!! Unable to mount the file system [cdrom] warning!!! Unable to mount the file system
Preboot maintence mode
/bin/ash: can't access tty: job control turned off
and at # prompt.
There is no cdrom on the gen10 plus. Only in internal bootable usb port.
That's usually fine because the cdrom can be mounted as loop device. No need for a real cdrom.
Yeah. Going to work on it some more today. Plus got a finish a paper for a symposium. I give up on learning tex; I found a word template that can create the right pdf, so pull out all my writing in tex and start over. And I DO use the IETF's xml format for creating Internet Drafts, so I am teachable on this stuff despite my age...
I do vaguely recall working with tex for writing back around '78, but that was it.
Regards, Simon
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