BIOS upgrade problem

[Davide Ferrari]

El Thursday 06 March 2008 19:02:47 Michael E Brown escribió:
> > 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.

Ok, finally I managed to solve this. In my case, the reboot=bios kernel param 
isn't needed at all. I mean, if I put it, it hangs on reboot. If I don't use 
it, reboot works fine and even the BIOS update works fine!

So maybe the difference between me and Jared it's that Jared's machines are 
PE2950 III, while mines are PE2950 first serie (he had BIOS version 2.0.1 
while I had 1.3.7).
Could this explain this strange issue?

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