[Info-vax] rx2800 i2 firmware

[Martin Vorlaender]

SeanOBanion <sean at obanion.us> wrote:
> MG <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>> ditt... at dittman.net wrote:
>> > I've got someone trying to update the firmware on a couple
>> > of rx2800 i2 systems.  He's having problems because he's
>> > remote.  I was wondering why that would be a problem and
>> > apparently the SFW and iLO firmware can only be updated
>> > using a remote Windows or Linux system.  He was told by
>> > HP that the Windows or Linux system must be on the same
>> > subnet as the iLO.
>>
>> That's very strange.  Especially since Windows and Linux for
>> IA-64 are both dropped platforms.  (The former in particular
>> and most definitely.)  Purely out of curiosity, have you tried
>> to see what is inside these firmware packages?
>>
>> > I know the rx2600 and rx2620 firmware can be updated from
>> > a CD or USB memory device.  I've done some checking and I
>> > can't find any equivalent FW update files for the rx2800 i2.
>>
>> Strange!  (Especially since the newer iLO/MP cards offer so-
>> called 'virtual media', or don't they?)
>
> The remote Linux or Windows systems do not need to be Integrity based:
> The release notes specifies X86 Linux and the Windows kit doesn't
> specify the architecture.
>
> The installation instructions state the requirement that the two
> systems must be on the same network because that is a requirement of
> the HPSUM software used to execute the remote install: "iLO-3 MP(s)
> must be on the network (reachable from local system) and have static
> IP or be configured with DHCP."
>
> It does look like the ILo3 includes the virtual media license, but
> interestingly, the System Firmware upgrades listed only allow HPSUM
> for installation, so the virtual media doesn't help.

I have looked into the HPSUM files provided by HP, specifically the AH395A
files for Linux.

bp001134.xml has the text
"<contents><package install=yes>CP015844.scexe</package></contents>"
which led me to inspect CP015844.scexe further.

So I unpacked rx2800i2_fw_bndl_lin.tar.gz and looked at CP015844.scexe.
This is a shell script that contains what I think are the firmware
binaries, prepended by some shell scripting to unpack it (like the
old VMSSHAR files). So I unpacked it using

   % mkdir ./fw ; ./CP015844.scexe --unpack=./fw

This gives rx2800_ilorom_01_50_02.bin and rx2800_sysrom_01_80.bin .

I have no idea how to proceed from there; perhaps somebody else has an
idea how to flash these files into the firmware of the rx2800 i2.

cu,
   Martin
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