Has anyone been able to get the HP utilities smart start or firmware upgrade disks to work with ver 50rc1? I got the firmware disk to load / boot in grub for dos menu, but it locks up before it completely loads the program.

title HP Firmware 8.60
map /FW860.ISO (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
boot

this gets it to load, but it hangs.

anybody any ideas? or how to get it to load in syslinux menu? there it never loads just fills the screen with dots, like it cant allocate memory to it.

Hi Customizer,

What is the ISO? BIOS update? Do you have a link to ISO? I am curious to see if I can get it working give it a shot.

Let me know.

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dpc

The HP SmartStart is a deployment and maintenance tool for HP servers.
There are 2 version available for download:

V8.30 32bit
V8.30 64bit

Latest Firmware Maintenance CD is V8.70 and can be found here:
Link

All 3 cds can be put on the same USB key using the HP USB Key Utility.



I am using this method to deploy and maintain servers at work without having to change the cd or usb key everytime but I'm still looking for an easy way to include the UBCD too.
Any help is appreciated.

Can you list all files (and files in subdirectories) of the different iso's?
The files are rather big to download just for testing.

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Here is a complete list of all files and directories for the smartstart 32bit and the firmware cd.

list_smartstart.txt

list_firmware.txt

I did get this to work, but had to copy all the files from the iso to a folder on usb stick, much like the HP usb key util does.


LABEL HPSS830_32

MENU LABEL HP SmartStart 8.30 x86

KERNEL vesamenu.c32

APPEND HPSS830_32/usbmenu.cfg mainmenu.cfg

THIS is the USBmenu.cfg theat the boot key util creates

CHECK_SERVER blacklist
DEFAULT HPSS830_32/vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0

MENU TITLE SmartStart Boot Menu
MENU BACKGROUND HPSS830_32/back.jpg
TIMEOUT 50

label vsos
MENU LABEL SmartStart 8.30 x86
kernel HPSS830_32/hpboot_v.c32
append HPSS830_32/vmlinuz initrd=HPSS830_32/initrd.img media=usb:HPSS830_32 rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=200276 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off vga=788 splash=silent showopts

label sos
MENU HIDE
kernel HPSS830_32/hpboot.c32
append HPSS830_32/vmlinuz initrd=HPSS830_32/initrd.img media=usb:HPSS830_32 rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=200276 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off splash=silent showopts

label harddisk
MENU HIDE
LOCALBOOT 1

MENU COLOR sel 7;37;44 #ff0030a5 #ff94c3f7 none
MENU COLOR unsel 34;47 #ff0030a5 #ffffffff none
MENU COLOR border 37;47 #ffd3d6e7 #ffd3d6e7 none
MENU COLOR title 37;47 #ff0030a5 #ffd3d6e7 none
MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;44 #ffffffff #00000000 none
MENU TABMSG
MENU AUTOBOOT #
MENU WIDTH 50

MENU MARGIN 1
MENU ROWS 4
MENU TABMSGROW 23
MENU CMDLINEROW 23
MENU ENDROW 24
MENU TIMEOUTROW 16
MENU HSHIFT 16
MENU VSHIFT 8
ONTIMEOUT vsos
ALLOWOPTIONS 1

So you created a UBCD USB-KEY and added the Smartstart and Firmware CD manually?

I'll give it a try and see if that works for me...still very new to all this

Also take a look here for a better approach:
http://reboot.pro/14178/

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