BIOS upgrade problem

[Jared]

I'm running Debian Etch.  I know that Red Hat is the only officially
supported distro, but Debian seems to be pretty well supported as well
(albeit unofficially).  I have OMSA installed and running fine, was able
to upgrade my PERC firmware without problem, etc.  So, if it is a distro
issue as you suggest, I'm rather puzzled as to why only the BIOS update
would fail while everything else works.

--
Jared


On 02/27/2008 03:36 AM, Davide Ferrari wrote:
> El Sunday 24 February 2008 07:51:32 Jared escribió:
>> Update completed successfully but can not perform the BIOS verification
>> after reboot.
>>
>> BIOS
>> Update completed successfully but can not perform the BIOS verification
>> after reboot.
>>
>> Update completed successfully but can not perform the BIOS verification
>> after reboot.
>>
>> An 'omreport chassis bios' still shows version 2.0.1, and even after I
>> reboot it's still running the old version 2.0.1.  I've tried applying the
>> update and rebooting twice now, but it just won't stick.
> 
> I had the exact same issue:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-poweredge&m=120368492204255&w=2
> 
> and as I told in that thread I only managed to resolve by booting with the 
> CentOS live-cd you can find here
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-51-live/
> 
> and then using the standard RedHat bin file you are using as well. Which 
> distribution are you using, just for curiosity's sake?