{Spam?} Re: CentOS 5 (Final) has been released

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:04:53PM -0700, Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> > Hmm... there is a bit in DMI table that gives a small reason-code. I
> > don't have code to check.
> > 
> > Can you manually run the dellBiosUpdate executable and send 
> > the results? 
> >   # modprobe dell_rbu
> >   # dellBiosUpdate -u --hdr 
> > /usr/share/firmware/bios/...path..to../bios.hdr
> 
> [root at hcfw1 system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b3_version_1.3.7]#
> dellBiosUpdate -u --hdr
> /usr/share/firmware/bios/system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b3_version_1.3.7
> /bios.hdr 
> Supported RBU type for this system: (MONOLITHIC, PACKET)
> Using RBU v2 driver. Initializing Driver. 
> Setting RBU type in v2 driver to: PACKET
> writing (4096) to file: /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size
> Writing RBU data (4096bytes/dot):
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ............................................
> Done writing packet data.
> Activate CMOS bit to notify BIOS that update is ready on next boot.
> Update staged sucessfully. BIOS update will occur on next reboot.
> [root at hcfw1 system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b3_version_1.3.7]#
> 
> I then did an 'init 6' and got the same message:
> 
> Attempting to update BIOS; please wait
> BIOS Update Attempt Failed!
> 
> And after the softboot the Dell splashscreen shows a BIOS version of
> 1.2.0
> 
> This is a PE1950 running CentOS5 (Final).

I have some machines here, I will try it out.
--
Michael