Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You have to do a warm-reboot. power cycle will not work.

The way the update works is that it loads the image into RAM and sets a CMOS bit. The BIOS notices the bit and scans RAM for the image.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Scott [mailto:chad.scott at gmail.com]
Sent: Wed 10/4/2006 1:22 PM
To: Domsch, Matt
Cc: Brown, Michael E; firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420
 
I'm just doing an 'init 6' and letting the system shut-down and reboot normally.

I thought of this possibility, so I manually loaded the dell_rbu
module before running the .BIN and got the same result ("The image was
not found in memory.") after the 'init 6'.

I suppose it's possible something's pulling the dell_rbu module out
without my knowing it, but I'd be surprised.  This is a stock CentOS
installation.

I suppose I can try going into single user mode, performing the
update, syncing like mad, then forcing the power off rather than doing
an 'init 6' and see if that helps.

On 10/4/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> By chance are you doing something that can cause the dell_rbu driver
> to be unloaded from memory before rebooting?  A straight 'init 6'
> shouldn't rmmod dell_rbu, but if that driver is getting unloaded, that
> would explain both messages (not found and/or failed checks).