BIOS upgrade problem

[Davide Ferrari]

El Thursday 06 March 2008 09:31:35 Jared escribió:
> reboot=bios - I figured it'd be safer to be as explicit as possible.  :-)

Ok, in my case it didn't work :(

I was trying to update a PE2950 (0x01B2) with this BIOS

http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_0x01b2_version_2.2.6/bios.hdr

on a Debian Etch 4.0 (updated to current security patches)

I've passed the reboot=bios option to the kernel:

# dmesg |grep -i line
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda1 ro reboot=bios )

I've followed the instruction on the wiki:

# dellBiosUpdate -u -f ./bios.hdr

WARNING: packet updates are not fully tested yet for packet modes v0/v2.
         We recommend that only monlithic updates be used at this point.
         You should only use packet mode on v0/v2 systems if you know what you 
are
         doing (for example, testing.)

Forcing MONOLITHIC mode...

Supported RBU type for this system: (MONOLITHIC, PACKET)
Using RBU v2 driver. Initializing Driver.
Setting RBU type in v2 driver to: MONOLITHIC (FORCED)
Prep driver for data load.
Writing RBU data 
(4096bytes/dot): .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Notify driver data is finished.
Activate CMOS bit to notify BIOS that update is ready on next boot.
Update staged sucessfully. BIOS update will occur on next reboot.


I did a reboot and... I'm waiting for the datacenter crew to press F1, because 
the PE2950 neveer rebooted :(

Michael, any hints?
Jared, did you do the same I did? Any differences?
I was updating from a 1.3.7 BIOS

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Davide Ferrari
System Administrator