BIOS upgrade problem

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Davide Ferrari wrote:
> El Thursday 06 March 2008 16:47:34 Jared escribió:
> > 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 think it's something related to the kernel and the option I've added 
> (reboot=bios), because I've just tried to reboot it again *without* doing 
> anything related to BIOS upgrade (well, without doing anything at all, to be 
> clear) and I'm experiencing the same issue (maching hangs just before 
> reboot).

You can also try "reboot=warm,bios,smp", which sometimes fixes the 'hang on
reboot' problem.
--
Michael