Showing posts with label firmware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firmware. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2009

Solaris 10u6 on HP DL185's

Trying to get Solaris 10u6 on an HP DL185 can be thought of as an adventure to put it mildly.

Here is a brief idea of the steps that are needed. I'll add more detail as I have time.


1. Get the 10u5 miniroot.
2. Unpack the miniroot and install the Disk Array drivers into the miniroot.
3. Use that miniroot to PXE boot the 10u6 install.
4. Do the install ( I like using the flar install ).
5. During the install, tell it to NOT automatically reboot.
6. When it is finished with the install, drop into a shell.
7. You need to install the HP drivers package. You can bring up the network to install it, copy it off CD, or get it some other way.
8. Reboot the box.
9. When it gets to the grub prompt, Edit the entry and add a -r on to the end to tell it to reconfigure it's devices.
10. Chances are it won't boot correctly and will have it's filesystem read only.
11. Check it's disk numbering and you may find that it went from c0t0d0 to c1t0d0.
12. If it did, adjust /etc/vfstab and reboot.


Update: I made a flar of the finished product and it installs much easier. It doesn't reorder the disk, controllers, etc.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Sun x4500 and Harddrive firmware patches

If you have a x4500 ( Thumper ) with the 500g disks, make sure you install patch number 140576-03.

140576-03 sata firmware patch for 500gb Hitachi Drives

It only affects the following drives:

Disk Drive HDS725050KLA360, 500.0GB (Sun model number HDS7250SASUN500G) without disk firmware revision AV0A

The patch requires a reboot where it will go through disk by disk and install the firmware. With 48 disks, expect it to take a while.


Also install the latest Solaris patches and firmware for the x4500 which is 1.6 as of today.

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