BIOS upgrade problem

[Jared]

On 03/06/2008 06:17 AM, Davide Ferrari wrote:
> 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

I believe this was the exact BIOS that I used.  I can confirm when I get 
home tonight.

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

ditto

> 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 )

also looks exactly the same

> I've followed the instruction on the wiki:
 >
 > <SNIP>

ditto

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

The only differences that I can think of are that I was updating from 
v2.0.1, which is a bit newer than your version, and that before 
attempting this I first tried using the firmware .BIN file available 
through support.dell.com.  When that first option didn't work, I 
switched over to the manual method you used.  I don't think that should 
matter, but it is a difference...

I'll check out some stuff when I get home tonight and see if I can spot 
any other differences.