Poweredge SC440 - latest bios

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

The SC440 BIOS images use yet another packaging format which
firmware-addon-dell doesn't know how to extract at the moment.  Looking
at it, it's a shell script that wraps a Linux executable app that
appears to use the RBU mechanism, but does not contain (at least not
identifiable as such) the standard RBU payload.  We'll have to figure
out from whence these came and then figure out how to extract the
bios.hdr file (the RBU payload).

Until then, you can try to simply use the packages posted on
support.dell.com, without using firmware-tools.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


-----Original Message-----
From: libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com
[mailto:libsmbios-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On Behalf Of Budi
Jonkhart
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 3:37 AM
To: John Lewis
Cc: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: Poweredge SC440 - latest bios

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John Lewis wrote:

> Or indeed if somebody could tell me how to extract the hdr file from
> the .bin file on the standard Dell website, that would be good either.

If I'm not mistaken, you can simply execute the binary with the
--extract option.

kind regards,
Budi Jonkhart


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