Mellanox sx6036 firmware upgrade

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Rand__ said:
You probably need to install a bunch of intermediate versions, there should be a list here somewhere.
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Hiya

thanks i will give it a try, with an older version, just need to wait for the next attempt to throw out the error again....as i did try to upgrade the latest version again...and its still loading1709676195523.png
 
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well looks like it was some sort of bug on the first attempt, on the second attempt now looks like its going 1709676821384.png
 
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I did try yesterday the following versions
image-PPC_M460EX-3.4.2008
image-PPC_M460EX-3.5.1006

i can se load sucess via web page.. but then on extract at around 17 to 18% it throws some erros on partitions.. and stops.. it takes around 10 to 15mins between each attempt to upgrade. I will post the next print below, as i have tried to upgrade it again today.
 
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P0rt4lN3T said:
I did try yesterday the following versions
image-PPC_M460EX-3.4.2008
image-PPC_M460EX-3.5.1006

i can se load sucess via web page.. but then on extract at around 17 to 18% it throws some erros on partitions.. and stops.. it takes around 10 to 15mins between each attempt to upgrade. I will post the next print below, as i have tried to upgrade it again today.
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nice switch! what's your use case, just messing around?
 
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NachoCDN said:
nice switch! what's your use case, just messing around?
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Hiya... nop i am trying to upgrade it to latest nvidia firmware so i can use it in our datacenter.. to upgrade some old 10G servers with mellanox MCX354ECAT NICs on tem.. but its throwing me errors on firmware upgrade as described on the picture below 1709737797747.png
 
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Perhaps i am trying to upgrade it incorreclty? i am downloading the IMG-xxxxxxxxxxxx.zip from nvidia and then loading it on local upgrade directly, do i need to unzip it first? i tried extracting the zip and i a have some scripts.sh inside and another zip img file.. do i need to exctract the img first?
 
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This is my show inventory information below
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On the front of the switch i only have mellanox logo on the lef side.. so i think this is original brand mellanox switch.. i did find online some IBM and HP branded switches.. perhaps this needs a different firmware image?
 
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i can't quite place it, but i thought that there was an order for upgrades and a flowchart somewhere on STH forums.
 
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tried a few more times.. and it allways errors on the extraction to the switch.. i checked the log and i saw this messages..

R1IBSW2 [standalone: master] # show log
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: lew_universal_event_handler(), libevent_wrapper.c:304, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: pro_handle_output(), pro_main.c:722, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: pro_handle_output_event(), pro_main.c:1078, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: lew_universal_event_handler(), libevent_wrapper.c:304, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: pro_handle_output(), pro_main.c:722, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:17:15 R1IBSW2 progress[7281]: [progress.ERR]: pro_handle_signal(), pro_main.c:812, build 1: Error code 14014 (generic IO error) returned
Mar 6 20:31:00 R1IBSW2 writeimage[6702]: [writeimage.ERR]: *** Could not extract files from /tmp/mnt_image_wi/tmpfs/unzip/webimage.tbz.tar : 2
Mar 6 20:31:01 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.WARNING]: Exit with code 1 from writeimage.sh
Mar 6 20:31:01 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.WARNING]: Image installation failure: /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now *** Could not extract files from /tmp/mnt_image_wi/tmpfs/unzip/webimage.tbz.tar : 2
Mar 6 20:31:01 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 29: status: completed with failure: /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now *** Could not extract files from /tmp/mnt_image_wi/tmpfs/unzip/webimage.tbz.tar : 2
Mar 6 20:31:55 R1IBSW2 statsd[4597]: [statsd.NOTICE]: alarm 'cpu_util_indiv': triggered for rising clear for event cpu_util_indiv
Mar 6 20:31:55 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Event occurred (CPU utilization has fallen back to normal levels), but no mailhub configured.
Mar 6 20:33:56 R1IBSW2 cli[5680]: [cli.NOTICE]: user admin: Executing command: image delete webimage.tbz
Mar 6 20:33:56 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 30: requested by: user admin (System Administrator) via CLI
Mar 6 20:33:56 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 30: descr: delete file
Mar 6 20:33:56 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 30: param: local_dir: "/var/opt/tms/images"
Mar 6 20:33:56 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 30: param: local_filename: "webimage.tbz"
Mar 6 20:33:57 R1IBSW2 mgmtd[3976]: [mgmtd.NOTICE]: Action ID 30: status: completed with success
 
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Looks like corrupted or incomplete file "Unexpected EOF", check checksums on Linux cli. Might also be your browser, use an old IE11 or older Mozilla like PaleMoon. If not working try CLI for upgrade:

Code: 
enable
configure terminal
image fetch http://yourip:8100/firmware.img
image install firmware.img
image boot next
configuration write
reload
If you don't have a webserver handy, on windows try GitHub - ethanpil/sheret: A tiny, simple static file web server.
 
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Stephan said:
Looks like corrupted or incomplete file "Unexpected EOF", check checksums on Linux cli. Might also be your browser, use an old IE11 or older Mozilla like PaleMoon. If not working try CLI for upgrade:

Code: 
enable
configure terminal
image fetch http://yourip:8100/firmware.img
image install firmware.img
image boot next
configuration write
reload
If you don't have a webserver handy, on windows try GitHub - ethanpil/sheret: A tiny, simple static file web server.
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Hiya,

Thanks for the input, i will check the github and try to set a local windows file web server, because the switch has no internet is just plugged in MGMT0 port directly to my win machine for testing.


Ok so new day, and a new challenge LFMAO....


so i did a couple of web gui upgrades last night.. and stopped on version 3.4.0012 upgrade sucessfully and after reboot... the switch is still on previous version showing 3.3.3400 on Partition 2 - active image (partition of next boot) and on Partition 1 ( 3.4.002) i pressed the Siwtch Net-boot partition button, and it changed to Partition 1 (partition of next boot) so i pressed reboot againa to take effect.. but after reboot is comes back to partition2 as active.. as described on the picture below

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So obvisouly now i am kind of lost again hehehe.
 
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i am now installing version 3.4.0012 to see if there was something missing on previous install attempts..
 
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