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

Jim Nelson jim.nelson at neteasyinc.com
Tue Nov 20 09:23:58 CST 2007


Craig White wrote:
>>> 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.
> ----
> 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
> 

IIRC, they've had problems with BMC firmware updates, and disabled them - I went 
ahead and did those with a USB floppy and a DOS disk.

I haven't tried doing that recently, although I may have a PE 750 that's getting 
rotated out soon I can play with.



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