IBM QS21 User Guide - Page 64
Installing, firmware, manually
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The -x option This enables to extract another executable file, in this example ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2.sh which in turn may be run to create the .bin file required if you wish to update the firmware manually. See "Installing the firmware manually" for further information. The -u option This performs an unattended and automatic update of the system firmware. The blade server reboots automatically as part of the update process. Updating the system firmware automatically Complete the following steps to update the firmware automatically using the update package: 1. Check the README before attempting to update the system firmware as it contains specific information about the particular firmware release. 2. Download the update package from http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/. The update package has a .sh extension. 3. Change to the directory where you have downloaded the package. 4. Run the package with the -u option. Using the example from above, at the command prompt enter: ./ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2_linux_cell.sh -u 5. Check the system firmware images to confirm the update has succeeded. See "Determining current blade server firmware levels" on page 42 for instructions. Installing the firmware manually If you cannot update the firmware using the update_flash script, it is possible to update the firmware manually. You can use rtas_flash over /proc. Complete the following steps to install the firmware manually: 1. Download the update package from http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/. 2. Extract the system firmware image package. At the command prompt enter: ./ -x For example, to extract the image package ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2.sh from ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2_linux_cell.sh in the directory /temp/fwimage enter: ./ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2_linux_cell.sh -x /temp/fwimage If the directory does not exist the firmware package creates it. 3. Change to the directory containing the firmware image package. 4. Extract the firmware image. At the command prompt enter: ./ -x For example, to extract the image file QB-1.9.1-2-boot_rom.bin from ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2.sh enter: ./ibm_fw_bios_qb-1.9.1-2.sh -x 5. Ensure the rtas_flash driver is loaded. To do this, run lsmod. 6. If the module is not yet in the kernel, invoke the following to load it: modprobe rtas_flash 7. To update your current firmware, copy the image file to /proc/ppc64/rtas/ firmware_update and reboot manually: cp /proc/ppc64/rtas/firmware_update shutdown -r now 48 QS21 Installation and User's Guide
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