I had a hard time upgrading my FreeNAS Mini firmware. So I'm posting the instructions here, hoping someone else finds it useful.
The page at [1] is now dead, so I rescued it from Google Cache [2],
saved it as HTML and added it to my website [3] [4], for posterity.
Apparently this page is not archived by the Wayback Machine, either. So
this will be the only copy of it after Google chooses to get rid of the
cached version.
It'd be nice if FreeNAS/TrueNAS folks resurrected it, though. These
instructions are valuable, and important, for their customers like me
who visit their FreeNAS Mini's web interface infrequently, or don't pay
attention to the FreeNAS UI closely.
To connect to the IPMI interface from your web browser, use the IP address shown in your FreeNAS Dashboard > Network > IPMI > Channel 1 > "IPv4 Address" field.
When it comes to uploading the firmware using the IPMI interface, the webpage has some bug so the button/interface to upload the firmware file does not show. Use the instructions at [5] to make the interface visible. Essentially:
0. Use Google Chrome
1. Log in to BMC
2. Open Chrome Dev Tools
3. Switch to Application tab. Expand "Cookies" and click the appropriate domain name for your server.
4. At the end of the existing cookie list, double click the empty spot. Enter "WebServer" under name.
The page at [1] is now dead, so I rescued it from Google Cache [2], saved it as HTML and added it to my website [3] [4], for posterity.
Apparently this page is not archived by the Wayback Machine, either. So this will be the only copy of it after Google chooses to get rid of the cached version.
It'd be nice if FreeNAS/TrueNAS folks resurrected it, though. These instructions are valuable, and important, for their customers like me who visit their FreeNAS Mini's web interface infrequently, or don't pay attention to the FreeNAS UI closely.
To connect to the IPMI interface from your web browser, use the IP address shown in your FreeNAS Dashboard > Network > IPMI > Channel 1 > "IPv4 Address" field.
When it comes to uploading the firmware using the IPMI interface, the webpage has some bug so the button/interface to upload the firmware file does not show. Use the instructions at [5] to make the interface visible. Essentially:
0. Use Google Chrome 1. Log in to BMC 2. Open Chrome Dev Tools 3. Switch to Application tab. Expand "Cookies" and click the appropriate domain name for your server. 4. At the end of the existing cookie list, double click the empty spot. Enter "WebServer" under name.
[1]: https://www.truenas.com/docs/hardware/legacy/mini-gen2/fn-bm...
[2]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o8wEib...
[3]: https://gurjeet.singh.im/files/ASRock%20Rack%20C2750D4I%20BM...
[4]: https://github.com/gurjeet/gurjeet.singh.im/commit/d8e735c8a...
[5]: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=9577&PID=67985&t...