HP Service Pack for Proliant (Firmware)

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(2016-05-13 08:51)markyang Wrote:  has anyone managed to get the HP Service pack to work with ipxe and over http?

Yes, but with an alternate approach, and HP will break things every other release for no reason.

We PXE boot the HP STK 10.20 (DHCP is broken in 10.30 and 10.40) with the following
ipxe config:

Code:

:hp_firmware
initrd ${boot-url}/firmware/HP/STK/initrd.img
kernel ${boot-url}/firmware/HP/STK/vmlinuz
imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=785116 ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off network=1 sstk_conf=toolkit.conf sstk_script=/sbp/deploy.sh sstk_tgz={{ .bootserver_inet_url }}/firmware/HP/STK/toolkit.tgz spp_tgz={{ .bootserver_inet_url }}/firmware/HP/SPP/{{ .hp_spp_tarball }} spp_version={{ .hp_spp_version }}
boot

And in the toolkit.tgz there is a script which applies the SPP listed in /proc/cmdline.

Code:

# perform updates
${TMPDIR} ${BASEDIR}/SPP/hpsum --silent \
    --veryv --express_install --romonly --ignore_warnings \
    --bundle $(basename ${TMPDIR}/${BASEDIR}/SPP/bp*xml)