BIOS upgrade problem

[Jared]

On 03/05/08 20:38, Matt Domsch wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:27:06PM -0600, Jared wrote:
 >> If this does work, would there be any harm in _always_ using that reboot
 >> option?  That way, anytime I need to apply a BIOS upgrade, I can just do
 >> it from the running session, reboot, and be done with it.  Would that
 >> cause any other potential conflicts?  I found a brief mention of
 >> reboot=bios in the bootparam manpage, but it's rather short on details,
 >> so I'm not sure what the implications would be of always using this
 >> option.
 >
 > no harm.  If it's required, we can add an entry to the quirk table in
 > the kernel to make this the default.  Please let us know if it works.

Success!  The direct update method using the .BIN file from the website 
still didn't work, but following the manual instructions posted here worked 
like a charm:

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios_dellBiosUpdate

Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions on this.

Matt, if you can figure out a way to make this work by default, that'd be 
super cool.  :-)

-- 
Jared