HP NC373F PCI-E Multifunction 1000SX Gigabit Server Adapter - Manual (Page 33)

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bnx2 driver update
Upgrading the bnx2 driver
If a newer version of the bnx2 driver needs to be installed on an iSCSI booted system, execute the
following commands on the iSCSI booted server. A system reboot is required for the changes to take
affect.
Red Hat 4
# rpm -e bnx2-<old version>
# rpm -ivh bnx2-<new version>.src.rpm
# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/bnx2.spec
# rpm -ivh --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>/bnx2-<new version>.rpm
# cd /opt/hp/iboot/bin
# ./iboot_config --config /opt/hp/iboot/etc/iboot.conf -r
# reboot
SLES 9
# rpm -e bnx2-<old version>
# rpm -ivh bnx2-<new version>.src.rpm
# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/package/SPECS/bnx2.spec
# rpm -ivh --force /usr/src/package/RPMS/<arch>/bnx2-<new version>.rpm
# cd /opt/hp/iboot/bin
# ./iboot_config --config /opt/hp/iboot/etc/iboot.conf -r
# reboot
Red Hat 5 and SLES 10
# rpm -ihv <rpmpath>/hp-iscsi-boot-<version>.i386.rpm
# rpm -e bnx2-<old version>
# rpm -ivh <rpmpath>/bnx2-<new version>.src.rpm
# rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/bnx2.spec
# rpm -ivh --force /usr/src/packages/RPMS/<arch>/bnx2-<new version>.rpm
# cd /opt/hp/hp-iscsi-boot/utils/bin
# ./rebuild_initrd
# reboot
Do not issue the command rmmod bnx2 for it results in system hang.
The command rebuild_initrd does not take any argument. It updates the /boot/initrd-<kernel-
version> image with the currently installed version of the bnx2 driver. Please see the man page for
rebuild_initrd(8) for details.