Expert way to flash the BIOS?

[Chris Carpinello]

Please be specific about which file(s) and methods you use to create a
bootable floppy to flash the BIOS.  The Dell Product Documentation CD
v3.8 doesn't have any information about this.  (Well, if it does, it's
buried deep enough that I couldn't find it.)  The executables in
ftp.dell.com/bios specific to the 1650 don't provide such functionality.

- Chris

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:34, Greg Dickie wrote:
> You can download BIOS exe's off the Dell web site that will create just
> such a bootable floppy. Thats what we do.
> 
> HTH,
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:48, Chris Carpinello wrote:
> > Is there an expert/unsupported way to flash the BIOS on PowerEdge 1650
> > servers?  I'm running an unsupported slimed down version of RH9 (custom
> > kernel, no gcc or other dev tools, no X, etc), which is obviously not
> > officially supported by Dell.
> > 
> > Basically, I'm looking for a very straightforward approach to boot the
> > system via floppy into an MSDOS shell and running some command line
> > program that flashes the BIOS using a PE1650-BIOS*.HDR file.  You know,
> > the same method most of us have done at one time or another with our PC
> > motherboards.
> > 
> > I'd rather not have to reinstall a supported OS (RHEL 3.0, Windows 2003,
> > etc) along with OMSA and all the trimmings just for the sole purpose of
> > flashing the BIOS on my two dozen PE1650s.
> > 
> > - Chris
> > 
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