Help With An HP Proliant Gen10 Plus?

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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
# dd bs=4M
if=P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress

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.

4 thoughts on - Help With An HP Proliant Gen10 Plus?

  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Why create an MS-DOS filesystem on the stick which gets immediately overwritten in the next step?

    Is this what HPE says how to create the stick? If yes then you may ask HPE
    how to get it to work.

    That’s usually fine because the cdrom can be mounted as loop device. No need for a real cdrom.

    Regards, Simon

  • I think the idea is to get that first 4MB set up for booting, as the dd skips that space.

    HP gives no instructions.  At least I can’t find it on the support pages.  I do have a support account.

    You should just ‘know’ how to build a bootable device from a 9GB iso image.

    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.

  • No, what you’ve set is a dd block size of 4MB.

    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