firmware update on Blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:13:42PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:29:50PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> maybe I can copy the file somewhere under /boot/kernel
> >>> and pretend it's a kernel, and try to boot it?
> >>
> >> I am always netbooting the firmware file. Until now it worked for me (from
> >> Ultra Sparc 1, 2, 5, 10, 30 and to Blade100).
> >> I suppose it works also for Blade1500 but I never did it.
> >> Maybe you give it a try.
> >>
> >> Just use your other FreeBSD machines as rarp + tftp server to deviler the
> >> file. The file should be renamed (or linked) to it's hex IP equivalent.
> >> tcpdump is your friend here!
> >
> > sorry, could you please elaborate or give a link, I'm not familiar with
> > this. What's rarp? tftp? IP equivalent?
> >
> > maybe you got an example from your old netbooting?
> 
> please add to /etc/rc.conf
> inetd_enable="YES"
> than edit /etc/inetd.conf and enable tftp (there are 2 entries in that 
> file one for IPv4 and one for IPv6) after that /etc/rc.d/inetd start
> 
> write down the MAC of your Blade1500 and add an entry to /etc/ethers
> something like:
> 
> xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc   blade1500
> 
> and add a line to /etc/hosts containing the mapping of the blade1500 
> hostname (see ethers) to ir's IP. Eg:
> 
> 192.168.1.13		blade1500
> 
> after this is done start the RARP daemon. I am always doing it like this:
> 
> rarpd -adfsv

I get this error:

# rarpd -adfsv
/dev/bpf0: No such file or directory
# 

Shall I rebuild the kernel with bpf enabled?

many thanks
anton

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