****Re: I'm uncomfortable with firmware update

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 07:48 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:47:19PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > I've used this with success on CentOS 5 and Fedora systems but this is
> > the first time I've tried running this on a CentOS-4 system (PowerEdge
> > 1750) and things just don't look right to me...
> > 
> > # yum install $(inventory_firmware -b)
> 
> [snip]
> > Installing:
> > 
> > pci_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x000f_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x014a_for_system_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0123  noarch     a30-19.1         fwupdate          743 k
> > 
> > pci_firmware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x000f_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x014a_for_system_ven_0x1028_dev_0x014a  noarch     a24-19.1         fwupdate          833 k
> >  system_bios_PowerEdge_1750  noarch     a12-18.1         fwupdate
> > 342 k
> 
> These are PERC firmwares, but you shouldn't have gotten 2 of them I
> would think...  You should have gotten only one, the latter one
> because your system is 0x14a not 0x0123.
> 
> > Installing for dependencies:
> >  dell-lsiflash           i386       1.4.9.238.autobuild-1.el4 dell-testing      1.6 M
> 
> This is the actual flash utility for the PERC.
>  
> > Am I worrying needlessly?
> > 
> > Should I go ahead and install these updates?
> 
> I'll let Michael comment as to why there are two firmwares being
> downloaded.  That's unexpected (to me).  You don't want to flash both,
> that's for sure.
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I'm gathering that Michael is on vacation this week which is fine, I can
certainly wait to upgrade this system.

Curious though, that on an identical (hardware) 1750 but running
CentOS-5 instead of CentOS-4 it only updated the BIOS and nothing else.

Craig

Craig