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

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:22:02PM -0400, J. Epperson wrote:
> On Wed, July 18, 2007 15:14, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > the way that the update works is that it copies the image into RAM, sets
> > a bit in CMOS, then on reboot the BIOS notices the bit in CMOS and
> > searches for and locates the image in RAM, then self-updates.
> >
> > Reboot=bios fixes a problem where linux cold-reboots, destroying the
> > contents of RAM, and thus, your update.
> >
> > So, that is a long way of saying, yes, you need to re-run the update
> > before rebooting. No, do not power-cycle the system.
> > --
> Thanks for the detailed explanation, Michael.  update_firmware followed by
> shutdown -r 0 didn't work (even with reboot=bios), but update_firmware
> followed by reboot -f (and reboot=bios) did the trick.  Understanding what
> was actually going on was key to figuring that might work.
> 
> On to OMSA.  Getting "nothing to do" with yum -y install srvadmin-all.

2550 still? Only 6G and up are supported in the repository.
--
Michael