Dell support told me they've had problems with RHEL5.3 and Centos5.3 and above with firmware updates.
The recommendation was to just run the updates via the lifecycle controller. Hit F10 (I think) on system startup...it'll go into a utility boot. Feed it a static or DHCP IP address; then have it go find any firmware updates for the system. It will go download all the updates it needs; and apply them rebooting multiple times along the way. Its frankly slower than doing it the linux .BIN route; taking a while to download; etc... But it will check all your firmware (a few of my machines got power supply firmware updates). Make sure to give it at least an hour of downtime if you go this route. Between the downloading and all the reboots; it takes a while. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hanby > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: R610 and R710 fail to install BIOS update, CentOS 5 > > Howdy, > > I have one R710 and two R610 servers running CentOS 5. I'm attempting > to update the BIOS on these servers from 1.0.4 to 1.3.6: > > R610's > sh PER610_BIOS_LX_1.3.6.BIN > > R710 > sh PER710_BIOS_LX_1.3.6.BIN > > Collecting inventory... > . > Running validation... > > BIOS > > The version of this Update Package is newer than the currently > installed version. > Software application name: BIOS > Package version: 1.3.6 > Installed version: 1.0.4 > > > Continue? Y/N:Y > Executing update... > WARNING: DO NOT STOP THIS PROCESS OR INSTALL OTHER DELL PRODUCTS WHILE > UPDATE IS IN PROGRESS. > THESE ACTIONS MAY CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO BECOME UNSTABLE! > . > The update failed to complete > > > The message "failed to complete" happens very quickly after answering Y > to continue. > > Is there a way to increase the verbosity to get a better idea of why > this update is failing? > > Thanks, Mike Hanby > > ================================= > Mike Hanby > [email protected] > Information Systems Specialist II > IT HPCS / Research Computing > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
