Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

I am happy that you did get it updated, but want to understand the
failure. The first failures were most likely due to not having enough
contiguous kernel memory. I may have to add more verbose error reporting
to this path.
--
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com 
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On 
> Behalf Of Chad Scott
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:33 PM
> To: Domsch, Matt
> Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Re: Trouble updating BIOS on a PowerEdge SC1420
> 
> On 10/4/06, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> > > # modprobe dell_rbu
> > # dellBiosUpdate -u --force_mono -f 
> /usr/share/firmware/bios/whatever
> > > # /sbin/shutdown -r now
> 
> Okay, although this, in the end, worked, there was some strangeness
> with this method...
> 
> I did an 'init 1', waited to drop to single-user, did 'modprobe
> dell_rbu', verified it was loaded, then did a 'dellBiosUpdate
> --force_mono -f bios.hdr -u' and got a strange error that I was unable
> to capture.
> 
> It complained of insufficient permissions, being unable to allocate
> memory, and the rbu size not being set (?).
> 
> So, I thought maybe my syntax was wrong, so I tried it again with the
> same result.
> 
> So, I ran 'script /root/bios.txt' to capture the error, and the damn
> thing succeeded.  That'll teach me to not run script right off the
> bat. :)
> 
> My box is now happily running A04.
> 
> I hope that helps.  I can try to downgrade to A03 and then back to A04
> to see if I can reproduce this if needed.
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