Display And Verify Commands; Updating Firmware - Compaq AlphaServer GS60E Service Manual

Use the Loadable Firmware Update (LFU) utility to update system firmware. LFU
runs without any operating system and can update the firmware on any system
module. LFU handles modules on the TLSB bus (for example, the CPU) as well as
modules on the I/O buses. You are not required to specify any hardware path
information, and the update process is highly automated.
Both the LFU program and the firmware microcode images it writes are supplied on
a CD-ROM. From the SRM console, you start LFU with the boot command.
A typical update procedure is:
1. Verify the console environment variable setting (must be serial).
2. Boot the LFU CD-ROM. (Use the show config command to find the device
name of the CD-ROM device.)
3. Use the LFU list command to show the revisions of modules that LFU can
update and the revisions of update firmware.
4. Use the LFU update command to write the new firmware.
5. Exit.
Sections in this appendix are:
•
Booting LFU
•
List
•
Update
•
Exit
•

Display and Verify Commands

•
Create
Appendix A

Updating Firmware

Updating Firmware A-1