>
>
> 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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