[rescue] Upgrade ALOM firmware (SF v240) - error

[Ethan Hawke]

Good to hear,

I had a quick look at the alom{boot,main}fw files in the update packages 
and they are normal s-record files,
that is to say they are just the binary image directly from the flash,
if you find a server running a newer version of ALOM it can be read off 
the TSOP Flash chip and converted to an srec file and
the normal flashupdate utility can be used to update any other server of 
the same generation (either hw0 (V210,V240,V440, etc) and hw8 
(V245/V445, etc)).

It may be a lot easier to find a Sunfire with 1.6.10 ALOM than the 
original update package.

> PS: I’m sure it’s against the T’s & C’s from Oracle - but I wish we could all chip in and pay for an Oracle support contract to get these kinds of things trapped behind the paywall...
Especially in regards to the ALOM, as Sun never required a contract to 
download it, it was just on their site, even more surprising that they 
are so hard to find!

Cheers,

On 27/11/2024 5:45 am, vom513 via rescue wrote:
> I managed to get this installed.  It just seems like the sc is super finicky about timing / resets / etc.
>
> 	bash-3.2# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm version
>
> 	SC Version v1.6
> 	SC Bootmon Version:  v1.6.8
> 	SC Firmware Version:  v1.6.8
>
> PS: I’m sure it’s against the T’s & C’s from Oracle - but I wish we could all chip in and pay for an Oracle support contract to get these kinds of things trapped behind the paywall...
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