Preparation
If you haven't already, visit the
Brocade Overview page to download the latest guide package and get it ready to be served via TFTP - this unified package includes all the latest firmware, licenses, and documentation.
Connect to the serial/console port using a program like Putty (9600 8N1), then connect the
management ethernet port to your network (do NOT use any of the regular switch ports yet). The management port is the one above the full size USB port.
Power on the switch while watching your serial terminal - start smashing the b key until you're dropped into the bootloader prompt, which looks like ICX7xxx-Boot> . If you missed the prompt and it boots the OS instead, pull power and try again.
Now at the boot prompt, give the bootloader a temporary IP on your network, as well as supply the IP of your TFTP server where it can find your files. Replace the example IPs with your own. This IP is only going to be used temporarily by the bootloader. We'll also tell it the filename & path of the firmware images:
#Temp IP address of the switch: setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.50 setenv netmask 255.255.255.0 #IP of your TFTP server: setenv serverip 192.168.1.8 setenv image_name ICX7xxx/SPR08090mc.bin setenv uboot ICX7xxx/spz10118.bin