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Operating Systems AIX Resetting the NVRAM Post 302829353 by livehho on Thursday 4th of July 2013 03:56:37 PM

07-04-2013

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Originally Posted by rbatte1

You could refer this straight to IBM and get specialist advice, but if you are not contracted another option would be to download the microcode.

Go to IBM Support: Fix Central and get the ISO file. Expand it and write the contents to CD and update you p520 with that.

If you are HMC managed, the CD goes in the HMC and you use the Updates section in the main left hand side menu. If you are serial console, then apply power to the chassis, but do not press the power button. Make sure that the server completes the SSP power-on (5 minutes or so) and then press ENTER on the console. You will need top sign in to the SSP, but then there are menus to lead you through applying firmware. It's a bit difficult to say how without a machine to practice on, but it should be fairly obvious.

I hope that this helps, but do let us know.

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

this is standalone server, no HMC.

I managed to boot from the diagnostics CD, there is an option to update the firmware, then you have to insert the CD containing the firmware image you want to install.

I downloaded the latest firmware image from FixCentral called 01SF240_418_382.iso
Burned it to a CD but after inserting the CD to the server it didn't recognize the image
Then I saw that the contents of the CD was one rpm image 01SF240_418_382.rpm
Then I read in the documentation that the server will only recognize a .img image
So I extracted the contents of the rpm but there was only a file called 01SF240_418_382 (without .img extension)

So this is what i've tried:

- a CD containing a file called: 01SF240_418_382.rpm
- a CD containing a file called: 01SF240_418_382

Didn't work...

So I renamed the file to 01SF240_418_382.img and burned into a CD

Didn't work...

I am so frustrated... I need to have this ready for tomorrow

Btw, I also downloaded and burned the System Microcode Update Files and Discovery Tool CD-ROM image (IBM - Microcode update files on CD-ROM) which is supposed to contain all the firmware images for all the platforms.

This time it DID read the CD.. next, I had to choose which .img to install, there was a list of about 40 .img files, but guess what... SF240_418_382.img was not one of them

if I had hair.. i would be pulling it right now

please help?

livehho

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