****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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