Firmware Update Guide

Modified on Thu, 10 Oct at 11:23 AM

This guide applies to:
    SPR-M
    SPR-X
    3100-SM+
    3100-SX+
    3100-TX

To update your Blackcore IPMI Firmware, please follow the following steps.

For firmware files, please contact support.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Saving Existing Configuration
Updating IPMI Firmware
- Via IPMI
- Via Linux

Before updating firmware, it is recommended to save your existing configuration

Saving Existing Configuration

From the IPMI webui, navigate to "Maintenance -> Backup Configuration"
Tick "Check All" box
Click "Download" button
Your config file will be downloaded to your local machine. Please rename appropriately
- The file format is "<filename>.bak"

Updating IPMI Firmware

Via IPMI

From the IPMI webui, navigate to "Maintenance -> Firmware Update"
Click "Choose File", and select the firmware file provided by the Blackcore support team
- This will be in the format "<filename>.ima"
Click "Start firmware update"
You will see the following screen:
Note the default mode will overwrite all existing settings

To preserve existing configuration, please tick "Preserver all Configuration" checkbox, or adjust settings in "Maintenance -> Preserve Configuration" prior to flashing.
Click "Proceed to Flash", the file will now be uploaded to the BMC
Once uploaded, you will be given an version-compare overview
Click "Flash Selected sections" and accept the message prompt, the firmware will now flash
Once flashed, the IPMI will reset, this will make the interface inaccessible for a number of minutes
Once the flash is completed, the webui will come back up and you will be able to log back in

Via Linux

Download the IPMI firmware flash tool ("yafuflash") and IPMI firmware file ("<file>.ima") provided by Blackcore support to a folder on the host system

Note: you can use "wget" command on the links provided by Blackcore Support to download the files to your system. 
For example: 
wget <link provided> -O yafuflash 
wget <link provided> -O firmware.ima

Execute the following command to flash the IPMI firmware

# Make the file executable 
chmod +x yafuflash 
# Update the Firmware 
sudo ./yafuflash -KCS -full -non-interactive -preserve-config firmware.ima 


Note: "-preserve-config" flag is not needed if you want to wipe all data 
Note: This process is slow and can take 10 minutes or more! Do not interrupt the flashing process under any circumstances.

You will see the below output

Once flashing has completed, the BMC will reset, this can take a further 5 minutes.
After the BMC has reset, you may need to reload the IPMI driver in Linux before you can run commands like "ipmitool"

# Reload IPMI driver 
sudo modprobe ipmi_si 
# Check IPMI version 
sudo ipmitool mc info 
# Check IPMI IP 
sudo ipmitool lan print 8

If config was not preserved, IPMI user and password will reset to defaults, this is:

Version 1.60.10 or higher:
    User: admin
    Pass: admin123

Version 1.60.1 or lower:
    User: admin
    Pass: admin

You will need to login once, and will be prompted to update the default password