Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Chad Scott]

On 10/4/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> No, not power off please. :-)  A simple "/sbin/shutdown -r now" should
> suffice.

Doh.  Thanks for the head's up...

> You might try using the raw dellBiosUpdate program and pass
> --force_mono to it, in case it's an issue with detecting packetized vs
> monolithic mode.

I'll try that tonight and send an update.

> Thanks for your time in helping track this down!

Thanks for making it so easy to get BIOS updates... you folks have
made my life SO much easier.  Now to just get them to work... :)