Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Solaris Firmware upgrade

System Firmware Upgrade

Quick steps for upgrading Firmware

1) check the system firmware version using showhost

sc>showhost

2) Download the latest firmware based on your hardware model from http://sunsolve.sun.com

3) Use sysfwdownload utility comes with the downloaded firmware package to install the firmware

#./sysfwdownload [firmware].bin

4) Power off the server

#shutdown -i5 -g0 -y

5) Upgrade the firmware using flashupdate

sc>flashupdate -s 127.0.0.1

6) reset the system controller and poweron

sc>resetsc -y
sc>poweron
sc>boot