False alarm I guess, UPS just dropped off a brand new looking arista - that might be the fastest UPS ground package I've ever gotten. Still shows as unshipped on ebay. I'm pretty sure I ordered mine well after you guys did, so i wouldn't be surprised if you guys get yours today or tomorrow.
My USB DOM hasn't gotten here yet, so I tried to boot it off external USB using "boot usb1:EOS-4.21.0F.swi", but that just makes it try to copy the firmware from the external USB to the internal DOM, so it still errors out.
Since even their bootloader is just linux though, was able to trick it into mounting the external USB as the /mnt/flash mount it wants to use for boot files:
Code:
umount /mnt/flash
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
boot flash:EOS-4.21.0F.swi
booted right into EOS, it needed to reboot a couple times after upgrading the FPGA firmware and disabling ZTP, but it eventually booted fully and works perfectly:
Code:
localhost#sh version
Arista DCS-7050QX-32S-F
Hardware version: 11.32
Serial number: SSJ17235200
System MAC address: 2899.3ab7.1fa3
Software image version: 4.21.0F
Architecture: i386
Internal build version: 4.21.0F-9441269.4210F
Internal build ID: ede5dbcb-a279-47f2-b632-77dc5750bae3
Uptime: 0 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours and 3 minutes
Total memory: 3817916 kB
Free memory: 2951388 kB
you'll need to run the above umount/mount commands every time it reboots as aboot defaults to mounting the internal DOM as /mnt/flash - but this is just temporary so I could check that the switch works properly.
Mine did have an M2 slot, however the regular sata port was totally unpopulated, posted a pic in
https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...ding-arista-switches.19885/page-3#post-210135