What I have done in the past is On 2/13/2010 5:34 AM, plazmacrow wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'd like to install the latest bios on my Studio 1557. > The dell page says, that A03 is the latest available version (I've > currently A02). > > The problem is, that I'm running Linux (gentoo) - so I'm not able to use > the provided executable. > After asking google about this, it came up with the smbios stuff. > > smbios-sys-info is showing the following info: > Libsmbios version: 2.2.19 > Product Name: Studio 1557 > Vendor: Dell Inc. > BIOS Version: A02 > System ID: 0x02BD > Service Tag: 42L6XK1 > Express Service Code: 8863657057 > Asset Tag: ���SS?� > Property Ownership Tag: > > Please note the strange "Asset Tag" value, should I care about it? > > So my system id is 0x02BD, but I can't find a matching folder in > http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/. > I only found a similar folder 0x02b8 - is this the same? After trying to > install it with dellBiosUpdate-compact this error occurs: > "WARNING: BIOS HDR file does not contain support for this system. > This may result in bad things happening! > Exiting..." > >
What I have done in the past is use the Dell provided LiveCD (I forget the name), you can boot off that and then apply the patches. --Brian _______________________________________________ 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
