BooterMicro

Description

BooterMicro is a tool I threw together to ease the pain of updating the BIOS/UEFI firmware of my Supermicro servers .

It wil download all Supermicro BIOS/UEFI/IPMI firmwares, generate bootable FreeDOS images for each of them and create a spiffy syslinux menu.

It works as follows:

fetchbios.pl retrieves http://www.supermicro.nl/support/bios;
parses the latest BIOS/UEFI/IPMI firmware for all boards;
If a firmware does not yet exist locally, it will;
download the firmware into 'Firmware';
If the firmware is BIOS/UEFI, run mkbiosimg.sh on the downloaded zip, generating an image containing the contents of mkbiosimg/fdboot.img and said zip
Once done iterating, it will execute mkpxecfg.sh, which goes through Firmware and produce a syslinux menu at ../pxelinux.cfg/BooterMicro.cfg and ../pxelinux.cfg/BooterMicro

Screenshots

Requirements

Perl Modules

HTML::TableExtract
WWW::Mechanize
HTML::Strip
Date::Format

Utilities

mtools
7-zip
pigz

Usage

cd /srv/tftp
git clone https://github.com/zylon-internet/BooterMicro.git
echo "INCLUDE BooterMicro.cfg" >> ./pxelinux.cfg/default
cd BooterMicro
./fetchbios.pl

License

BooterMicro is licensed under the MIT License
mkbiosimg/fdboot.zip and mkbiosimg/bootsecs come from FreeDOS and are licensed under the GPL
mkbiosimg/sys-freedos.pl is licensed under the Public Domain

Thanks

@terrorobe for coming up with this spiffy name so quickly. :)

nistorj/BooterMicro