Repository status -- New Wiki pages, fwupdate.com moved.

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:22:49PM -0400, J. Epperson wrote:
> On Wed, July 18, 2007 12:54, Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> > The software and hardware repositories are both completely standalone and
> > independent. The firmware repository depends on the software repository.
> > This is covered in the 'setup' instructions for the firmware repository.
> > --
> 
> Thanks, Michael.  Found that bit after posting--should have read all three
> repository wikis first.
> 
> Now, after following the "Putting it all together" instructions, I'm not
> getting the bios updated.
> *****
> [root at itpadmin firmware.d]# update_firmware --yes
> 
> Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> 
> Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x00d9) - a05
>         Found Update: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x00d9) - a08
> 
> Found out of date packages.
> 
> Running updates...
> Installing system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x00d9) - a08
> ******
> I've shutdown -r 0 after that, and still have a05 bios.  Tried shutdown -h
> 0, then power-cycled, same thing.  Re-ran update_firmware --yes followed
> by shutdown -h and power-cycle, still a05.  Tried reading the python code,
> but can't follow what it actually does.  What am I missing about getting
> this bios update applied?

I've had a couple of reports on this. Probably need to set up a
troubleshooting page for the firmware stuff.

First thing to try: add "reboot=bios" to the kernel command line and see
if that fixes it.
--
Michael