update_firmware error (no such option: -f)

Jarosław Jan Pyszny jp at jbg2.pl
Fri Jan 16 17:03:29 CST 2009


Hi,

> Running update_firmware on my Dell XPS 420 (Fedora 9, x86_64) gives
> me the following error:
>
>   dellBiosUpdate: error: no such option: -f
>
> Here is the full output of "update_firmware --yes".  Any ideas?
[...]

change symlink /sbin/dellBiosUpdate
from 
 smbios-rbu-bios-update
to
  dellBiosUpdate-compat

work for me (Fedora 8 x86-64 and Latitude D630)

Best regards
Jarek

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| Jarosław Jan Pyszny
| Dział IT, JBG-2 Sp.z o.o.



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