Dell Perc 4/DC and PowerVault 220S - firmware upgrade under Fedora

[Howard Wilkinson]

Mikkel,


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Howard Wilkinson wrote:
>   
>> I have 4 Powervault 220s devices which need the firmware on the embedded
>> controller cards upgraded. I have download the dell Linux utilities and
>> tried to do the upgrade. However, this is failing - seemingly because I
>> have mirrored drives for the root filing systems (software mirror using
>> md) which get broken by the scan that the upgrade utility attempts. I
>> have tried to get round this by building a ramdisk with the required
>> utilities on it but the firmware upgrade still fails.
>>
>> The systems are currently Fedora 9 based. Has anybody managed to do this
>> sort of upgrade using these utilities and if so HOW?
>>
>> Regards, Howard.
>>
>>     
> Could you boot in the rescue mode, not mount the drives, and have
> the utilities on a USB drive? Or better yet, build a bootable stick
> with a live CD and the utilities?
>
> Mikkel
>   
I had thought of this and am trying to construct a suitable initrd image 
to try this out - the machine has no local mountable devices other than 
its hard discs. The root discs are on the internal controller and the PV 
units are on an additional Perc 4/DC controller. The Dell utility is (I 
think) taking the root discs out when scanning the scsi environment.

Given the hardware I will have to do a network boot (PXE) and try to run 
rescue from there, which means getting the Dell utilities into the 
rescue image.

I was hoping that somebody on the list had done some very similar and 
could tell me that this is going to work, I have the horrible feeling 
that I am going to end up with this failing to work because the Fedora 
environment is not enough like the Redhat Enterprise 3 environment the 
tools were developed for.

I will keep you apprised of any progress (or lack of)

Howard.

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