Let's report stuff that works for a change

[Fabrice LORRAIN]

Hello Michael,

For the last 2 weeks, I've used libsmbios to update BIOS on systems I've 
access. This is a sum up.

Most of thoses systems have been updated from a pxe/nfsroot 
debian/etch-i486 environnement. Almost all poweredges were updated from 
the running system (debian/etch-i686). The libsmbios binaries used are 
the ones provided by José Luis Tallon in the debian distribution 
(version 0.12.1-3). By the way thanks a lot for the package José.

Working systems :
Optiplex
  * 0x01DA : OptiPlex 745, 2.0.5 -> 2.3.1 (ok *3) [1]
  * 0x01E5 : OptiPlex 320, 1.0.9 -> 1.1.9
  * 0x01C5 : Optiplex 210L, A01 -> A02 (ok *3)
  * 0x01AD : OptiPlex GX620, A07 -> A11 (ok, *2)
  * 0x017A : Optiplex 170L, A07 -> A09 (ok *3)
  * 0x0179 : optiplex GX280, A05 -> A06, A06 -> A08, A05 -> A08
  * 0x0151 : OptiPlex GX270, A05 -> A07 (ok lots)
  * 0x0126 : OptiPlex GX260, A04/A06 -> A09 (ok lots)

Dimension/Latitude
  * 0x01DB : Dell DXP061 (Dimension 9200), 2.?.? -> 2.5.0, 2.5.1 -> 
2.5.1  (ok) [2]
  * 0x00B1 : Latitude C600, A16 -> A23 (ok)

PowerEdge
  * 0x009A : PowerEdge 4400, A09 -> A11 (ok)
  * 0x0121 : PowerEdge 2650, A17 -> A21 (ok)
  * 0x0135 : PowerEdge 1600SC, A12 -> A12 (ok)
  * 0x014A : PE 1750, A11 -> A12 (ok)
  * 0x016D : PE2850 A05 -> A06 (ok *2)
  * 0x01B2 : PowerEdge 2950, 1.3.7 -> 1.3.7 (ok)
  * 0x01E6 : PE860 A02 -> A03 (ok *3)

Not working systems :
None except the unsupported ones reported in previous mail

Great job.

[1] Optiplex 745 has a funcky bios 1.0.3. I was unable to soft-reboot 
the box with this version of bios (stuck at the end of the shutdown with 
no apparent reason). Manualy (pxe+dos) upgrading to bios 2.0.5 fixed 
this issue.

[2] The hdr repository is missing Bios version 2.5.1 for the Dimension 
9200... Upload to ftp.dell.com lately (Aug 29  3:19 DXP061-020501.EXE 
;-) I known, but we got a bunch of them yesterday with this new BIOS. 
FYI --writehdr works fine.

We are know integrating  dellBiosUpdate in our installation scripts and 
are _very_ happy with it.

Thanks again for this piece of software.

@+,
	Fab