[announce] firmware-tools: easier bios updates in Linux

[Florent Gilain]

 I get a problem here on a PE1850 with the bios A05 update :

[root at mx1 root]# apply_updates --yes

Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
                                                                     -
Checking: bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016c_version_a05/package.ini
Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016c) - a04
        Found Update: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016c) - a05

Found out of date packages.

Running updates...
Installing system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016c) - a05
modprobe: Can't locate module dell_rbu
[root at mx1 root]# up2date -u
http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/mirrors-rhel3.txt
using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/rhel3/

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3-extras...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-software...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fwupate...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel     
----------------------------------------------------------

All packages are currently up to date


Any idea ? I hesitate to reboot this server   ;-((

Florent

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Michael E Brown [mailto:Michael_E_Brown at dell.com] 
Envoyé : mercredi 7 juin 2006 18:24
À : Matt Domsch
Cc : Florent Gilain; linux-poweredge at dell.com
Objet : Re: [announce] firmware-tools: easier bios updates in Linux

FYI, there was a typo in apply_updates, where the message referred to
'apply_update' (note the lack of 's'). This has been fixed and a new version
posted.
--

Michael

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 07:43 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:45:41AM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm interested in such thing, but as many people here, yum wasn't 
> > installed onto my system by dell before shipping it to me..where can 
> > i find the rpm to install it on my PE1850  RHEL3 ES ? Maybe could a 
> > link to it be added to the unofficial webpages...? Or did i missed it ?
> 
> RHEL3 uses up2date instead of yum, however, up2date can pull from yum 
> repositories.  The announcement 
> (http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools/announce.html), as well as the 
> fwupdate.com repo's web page, includes instructions for use with RHEL.  
> Briefly, it looks like:
> 
> # set up repos
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.sh | bash 
> wget -q -O - http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.sh | 
> bash
> 
> # install firmware tools
> up2date -i firmware-addon-dell
> 
> # install BIOS update
> up2date --solvedeps=$(inventory_firmware -b -u) apply_updates
> 
> 
> It should be noted that the current repo setups work on RHEL{3,4}, 
> Fedora Core {3,4,5,devel}, and SLES9.
> 
> Thanks for your interest!
> Matt
>